Thanks c,
I'll do that (one small newbie step at a time)...
when backing up /home, can I simply cp to another drive then cp back, or
will this mess up links and such?
merci
John
civileme wrote:
>
> On Friday 05 January 2001 01:57, you wrote:
> > Hi folks, I'm confused. (Surprise).
> >
> > I'm new to 7.2 (and mandrake, generally), so I used the installation
> > guide when deciding on partition sizes. This is what I have:
> >
> >
> > / 492MB
> > /boot 9.5MB
> > /home 4.24GB
> > /usr 3.17GB
> > and then swap of 64MB (I think, same as RAM)
> >
> > The thing is, the guide suggested 300MB for /. I was greedy and used
> > 492MB, but now kdf shows / as having only 99.9MB free (392 used?!).
> > Ten days ago, there was 110MB free - at this rate, I'll run out of space
> > on the partition.
> >
> > So was the 300MB a bad suggestion, or is something freaky?
> > If I have to expand /, what's the best way to do it and not lose data
> > (I have partition magic on a W95 partition)? and how big should I make
> > it?
> >
> > Thanks (again!)
> >
> > John
>
> The new Linux Standard base stuck htmldocs and ftp in /var. I strongly
> recommend it as a separate partition (NOT a symlinked one, too many
> scripts/proggies that access it do a ../ and think they will be at /.)
>
> backup the data on /home, split it about 50/50 since most of your servers now
> live on /var. make the two partitions, /home and /newvar mount points,
>
> cp -a /var /newvar
> rm -r /var -f
>
> EITHER
> umount /newvar
> in /etc/fstab, edit the mount point /newvar to /var then mount /var
> OR
> or if you get nervous editing your filesystems table , just
>
> ln -s /newvar /var
>
> Civileme
