On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Ken Morley wrote: > On my RH 7.3 system, the /USR filesystem is almost full. I've purchased an > additional disk drive and will install, format and mount it. > > Is there some way that I can "append" the new storage space to the existing > /USR filesystem? Or do I have to create a new /USR (on the new drive), copy > everything over and then "waste" the old /USR (it's about 15GB so I hate to > waste it)? >
Yes. It depends on the needs of your system. Can you identify one directory in the /usr partition that is taking up most of the space on your 15 Gig /usr partition? ....perhaps /usr/src? (If it is /usr/src, do you really need to keep all of that stuff on live storage, or can it be archived to CDRs?) BTW, you can use the du command to tell you how much space each folder occupies. Just a thought. > Can this be done through the use of symbolic link(s)? There are more than > ten thousand files and directories on the existing /USR. In order to use a symbolic link, the new disk drive will have to be mounted somewhere. Its more round-about than the direct method. > I've scoured the documentation, but this topic seems to be omitted (or I'm > too stupid to find it). That's because there is no one answer that will solve everyone's problem. Mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
