Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 15:30 schrieb houghi: > 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
That is essentially what I did, well, I made a /home/IBM and linked it to /opt/IBM, the rest of opt stayed where it was - I was in a hurry to set it up for an impromtue lecture at the Uni, so I didn't have time for niceties... That was the main reason for the e-mail, I had only installed it on a workstation that has a 120GB / partition and a 120GB /data partition, /home being on the root partition, so when I installed it there, there weren't any problems. I now set my test machines up with 20GB root partitions for testing, once I've worked out how much I actually need, I can re-asses the situation. As I've said before in this thread, I was posting a warning that people should think hard about what they need to allocate as the 10GB max. of the current Beta may be a little small for some purposes. The proposed max of 20GB might help some people with larger drives and larger needs, and has been said, it is dynamic, so it won't grab 20GB on a 30GB driver, and it is just a suggestion. I'll think about it some more, maybe I could start a wiki page on planning partition sizes and other considerations when looking to make a new install... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
