On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote:
> * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 09:20]:
> > I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space.  My
> > current situation is
> >
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hde7             5.9G  5.3G  288M  95% /
> > /dev/hde5             5.9G  2.7G  3.3G  46% /Data
> > /dev/hde6             5.7G  452M  5.3G   8% /Graphics
> > /dev/hde8            1012M  7.7M  953M   1% /boot
> > /dev/hde10            5.8G   33M  5.5G   1% /holding
> > /dev/hde9             9.7G  4.5G  5.3G  47% /home
> > /dev/hdf1             5.3G  3.3G  1.8G  65% /mnt/Mdk9_0
> > /dev/hdf6             3.9G  2.2G  1.7G  57% /mnt/OldData
> > /dev/hdf7             6.7G  5.0G  1.7G  75% /mnt/OldHome
> > /dev/hde1             3.9G  1.8G  2.2G  46% /mnt/windows
> >
> > hdf is the old drive, and to be ignored.  Only half of hde is
> > partitioned and used at present.
> >
> > /holding is an ext3 partition, empty.
> > /Data & /Graphics are vfat, and could easily be combined under
> > /Data
> >
> > Question:  If I do this, then remove /Graphics, can mcc extend a
> > partition backwards like this?  Seems to me that would be
> > problematic.
> >
> > /boot is much bigger than needed, but that wouldn't gain very
> > much room.
> >
> > What is the easiest and safest way of making more space here?
>
> New hard drive, definitely.  /dev/hde appears to be a 40G drive;
> you should be able to replace it with an 80, at least.  You could
> probably then put the old stuff on the 40G if you want, or maybe
> use it for backups of important stuff from the new drive.
>
No, no.  You misunderstand.  This *is* a 80G drive.  When I set it up 
only a couple of months ago I thought I had allowed plenty of space, 
so would use the rest later, probably for later versions

> Anyway, I would suggest expanding rather than juggling.  Whatever
> you do to try to get back down under 90% (which should be
> considered a full drive IMHO) would soon be creeping up into the
> 90% range.

Agreed - it came as a shock to realise just how quickly it had filled 
up.

Anne

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