On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:03, Paul Smith wrote: > Stephen K�hn wrote: > >>Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact > >>that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am > >>reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 > >>GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has > >>11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux > >>partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? > > > > df -h > > Thanks, Stephen. Should I take some actions considering the following > information? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 > 4,5G 3,5G 816M 82% / > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > 2,8G 1,9G 933M 68% /home > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > 12G 6,4G 4,9G 57% /mnt/windows > [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# > > Paul > Here is something specific you can do which will address the issue without blowing away your doze install.
1. Backup ALL important stuff - this procedure is reliable, but then so am I and you would want your life depending on just me! ;-) 2. Defrag the doze partition 3. Use diskdrake to shrink it leaving enough space to be workable. Looks like you could trim at least 3GB. 4. Create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /new telling diskdrake to save the changes to fstab 5. As root: cp -a /usr /new 6. Edit /etc/fstab and change /new to /usr 7. Reboot - now you have all the /usr files being accessed from your new partition and the /usr within your root partition is an unused copy. 8. As root: cd / mv usr oldusr 9. Reboot again just to make sure you got everything right and it all still works (so far you haven't deleted anything) 10. If everything looks happy, as root: cd / rm -rf oldusr df -h should now present a rosier picture HTH Brian
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