Partitioning questions
Tony Hammitt
thammitt at kc.rr.com
Thu Mar 16 18:16:48 CST 2000
Frank Wiles wrote:
>
> .------[ Bradley Miller wrote (2000/03/16 at 11:31:01) ]------
> |
> | Now that I have Samba running, I'm looking at some directories and that and
> | I think I need to give somethings more room, and possibly look at adding
> | another harddrive. What's the best way to go about this? When I was
> | installing Samba on the other computer it complained that the /usr wasn't
> | big enough. I deleted some files (4 mb worth) and all was fine. How
> | would I go about changing that . . . perferably without messing up my 60+
> | days of uptime? ;-)
> |
> `-------------------------------------------------
>
> Unless you're willing to just move mount points around, you're going
> to lose your uptime. ( Well at least I wouldn't recommend adding
> and yanking drives in a running system!!! ).
>
> Easiest way is to add a new drive, partition it up a bit, and move
> your mount points around to give yourself more space in the areas
> that need it.
>
> -------------------------------
> Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
> http://frank.wiles.org
> -------------------------------
>
You may not have to go that far. I successfully moved several
directories out of /usr with no ill effects. I had some spare
space in another partition and did the following:
cp -a /usr/src /admin
cp -a /usr/doc /admin
rm -rf /usr/src
rm -rf /usr/doc
ln -s /admin/doc /usr/doc
ln -s /admin/src /usr/src
Now I have lots of space in /usr, plenty of space to compile
kernels and the nearly useless /doc directory put somewhere
more appropriate. (When they have all of the docs and manpages
html'ized and cross-linked, they'll be useful again. I'm used
to this from AIX and I guess I'm spoiled...)
If you need to do something more drastic, you'll have to
reboot, at least. Disks are cheap nowadays, I'll probably
give /usr 2GB from now on. Back when I partitioned some of
these boxes, 800MB for /usr was overkill...
Caveat: Make sure that /usr is in the same mount group as
where the files are moving to, preferrably mounted afterwards.
Just my 2 cents.
Tony Hammitt
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