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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