Marcus Liddle wrote:
> 
> Hi-ho
> 
> Gosh gee ...my little PC has been having so much fun --
>   its getting a very very full root partition !!
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1              5044156   4768696     19228 100% /
> 
>   O U C H !!
> 
> I've trimmed a few things and am now poundering "what next??"

Um, slightly bigger numbers, but the same concept applies here. I
thought "Get a stonking big hard disk" and did. Now I discover that my
cranky old Cyrix M2 300MHz motherboard won't recognise it. Nuts. The
spare machine has an identical motherboard. Double nuts.

Kind friend is sending me an Athlon 800MHz board, whcih hopefully will
solve the problem.

I'm planning on copying the contents of the old partitions into new ones
using

cp -a /olddir /mnt/newhd

mounting them one by one. Then I plan to swap the drives over properly,
boot off a floppy, run LILO to make the new HD bootable, and she should
be done.

Am I an optimist or what?

Vik :v)
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