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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