I don't know how to cut up your drive, but if you do run out of room on
one partition after you cut the drive up
you can always sys link most of the directories.
If you say have 1 gig of free space on /usr and running out of room on your
/home part you can do this.
cp -rip /home /usr/home
# Make sure it works before we delete home
umount /home
ln -s /usr/home /home
# See if anything is broken, no?
mount /dev/hdaX /someotherplace
rm -rf /someotherplace/*
Basically this copies everything from /home to /usr/home and then links it
back to the root directory, to "fool" the programs and users so it will work
correctly. Warning do a backup before you try this. Warning do not ever try
this with the /bin /etc /sbin directories.
/var /home /usr and anything under them works fine.
This works if you in a pitch, and is a sweet little trick to know, I though
it might be some what "on topic" :)
>
> First,
> Is there an archive to this list, because I have asked this before
> (sorry).
>
>
> I have about 3.5 GB that I am installing Linux onto (Redhat 6 on a
> P166). This will mostly be a development server and for the most part a
> single (or very few) user system. I will need disk space to store
> things in the web root directory but I would think I will install most
> software into some part of /usr. I suppose I will do most developement
> in the web root area, but also some native app development in my home
> directory. My question is: what is a good partition scheme for a single
> user that will install a lot of general software, but will also develop
> in the web root and in his home directory?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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