I am trying to get my hands on another hard drive.
If I can't, can I with my existing setup:
* Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized
'/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if
you resize a partition you loose all data?)
* Having realized that I did not do a very good job at partitioning
when I installed (should have made partitions for '/usr', etc.),
can I now make partitions for '/usr' on my '/dev/hda6' or '/'.
If I do get another hard drive,
* what are the recommended partitions to make?
* will I be able to copy my existing setup over to the new drive or
will I have to reinstall. I understand that I will have to point
LILO to the new drive.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
At 10:28 PM 07/19/2001 +0000, civileme wrote:
>On Thursday 19 July 2001 19:52, George Baker wrote:
>> Sorry, I am new at this. Here are my partition details:
>>
>> [george@localhost george]$ df -k
>> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda6 464585 433598 6999 98% /
>> /dev/hda1 2096320 1523840 572480 73% /mnt/DOS_hda1
>> /dev/hda5 7776 827 6548 11% /boot
>> /dev/hda8 472392 124795 323205 28% /home
>
>Uffff!
>
>This is a 3G disk. How are your pockets for change? You need either
another
>hdd or a bigger hdd. You are below minimums on / and soon will have a
>situation where it will not boot unless there are sufficient sections
for /,
>which should be reserved properly in the setup.. You could resize
/home a
>little smaller, and possibly make two partitions there for /var and
>/usr/local or even three with /tmp added, but there is litle hope of
being
>able to move /usr there /usr/X11R6 maybe. You might be able to shrink
DOS a
>little , say 300000k, and put all of /usr there, but that disk looks
>uncomfortably tight, and if ext2resize isn't there already, you will
have to
>do surgery to make room for it.
>
>Sounds like a good exercise for you other helpers [ducks].
>
>Civileme
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