On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:57:39AM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> With a fairly typical developer install, with Gnome and KDE loaded on my
> laptop, that crashed through the 10GB barrier that YaST suggests at install
> time. If I'd thought that I might need such a big app and had made allowances
> for it when setting up the machine it would have been OK, but I hadn't
> thought about it. This means however that tools like Requisite Pro and
> Websphere and the testing tools can't be added at all without re-jigging the
> partitions (I'd probably need 20-30GB of space for root or /opt to install
> the complete suite).
First, needing 20-30 GB of space can not be an option as default. If you
are going to install somethin that needs 30GB of /, I would expect you to
know that.
yes, there is a very easy way to go about this, asuming you have plenty of
space on /home. If you have only 20GB left on your 30GB HD and you need
30GB, then you indeed need to re-jig your partitions and perhaps even
re-install. Even then the HD might nog be large enough.
So if you have enough space on your HD, this is what you can do:
Make a directory /home/opt (or even /home/opt/IBM_LARGE_PRGRM).
Rename /opt to /opt_old
symlink /home/opt to /opt
copy all of /opt_old to /opt
Once all works, you can delete /opt_old
You can do this with each and every directory. If you need e.g. a larger
/tmp, you can do that as well. If you use more then one directory, I would
sugest something like /home/DIRS/opt and /home/DIRS/tmp
An extra advantage is that when you do a new installation with a newer
version, or even a new OS, that data is still available on your second
partition.
Disadvatage is that people will cry out loud because it is in the /home
directory structure. As it is your machine, you can decide what is more
important: Having a slightly off, but working personal PC or going through
the trouble of re-formatting and having a nice clean /home. ;-)
houghi
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