On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:54, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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
>
> ...
>
> looking at this more closely, what I would do is:
>
> telinit 1
> cp -a /usr/* /holding/
> umount /holding
> vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa.
> mount /usr
> telinit 5
>
> Then see if everything still works. If it does,
>
> telinit 1
> umount /usr
> rm -rf /usr/*
> mount /usr
> telinit 5

holding is slightly smaller than /, but I could make a new partition, 
say 10GB and then do something similar.

Anne

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