I'm trying to gracefully recover from an error I made in my first debian
installation several months ago: While attempting to make /root fairly small, I
created hda3 as 100M, wasting most of a 4G disk. I have just realized what I
did and now I would like to bring this system up to something
Can you tell me, how you have partitinated your harddisk exactly,
e.g. the output of cfdisk would be nice and how you've mounted them...
(i've have some experience with repartitioniering a hharddsik with a
running system on it, since i have made this two times allready, playing
around with cfdisk,
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave McFadden wrote:
Any and all suggestions on how to grow the storage space on my box would
be greatly appreciated.
And a df -h output would be nice, too.
Martin
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Dave McFadden said:
I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount it
as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than
extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right now.
:-)
Taking the opposite approach from the
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
All you have to do is
mv /tmp /tmp-old
mount /new/partition /tmp
cp -r /tmp-old /tmp
Better yet: use cp -a
rm -rf /tmp-old (Don't do this before you're happy with the new scheme!)
Nils
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Plug-and-Play is really nice,
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
: Dave McFadden said:
: I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount
it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than
extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right
Eeek, dave, you gotta wrap your lines at 70 to 76 characters.. (thank god
for vim's reformatting.. :)
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:43:55AM -0500, Dave McFadden wrote:
[/dev/hda3 == 100mb, much drive space left]
I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount
it as /usr
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