I was just formatting the disk new, I wasn't running out of space, but
thanks for that tim anyway.
Michael
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>
> 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
> >
