On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Sangohn Christian wrote:
> From: Sangohn Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Linux Config Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Linux Admin List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:35:59 +0100
> Subject: Re: Concatenate partitions
>
> On Tue, 02 Mar 1999, Dave Mielke wrote:
> SC>>
> SC>>Is it possible to concatenate partitions sdb9 and sdb10 to one partition without
> SC>>affecting the other partitions?
> SC>
> SC>the end of sdb9 so that it's where the end of the former sdb10 was, reformat
> SC>sdb9 as ext2, untar /var back into the bigger sdb9, create a symbolic link in
> SC>your root partition from /tmp to /var/tmp (which already exists), and, finally,
> SC>update /etc/fstab as all partitions beyond sdb10 will now have been renumbered
> The real problem is that this two partitions are obviously to small dimensioned.
> /tmp because when compiling big source packages (like koffice or mico) with debug
> options, it fails because of a "no space left on device" and /var because the
> Debian package information are stored there. So I though I could enlarge the /tmp
> partition and /var should be on the root partition. But you are suggesting /var
> and /tmp should use the same partition space. What are the advantages of your
> solution to mine?
Nothing, except this solution was what the original question asked!
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