Re: partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

Andy, 2003-Feb-06 07:41 -0900:
> 
> Fresh woody install on a 20 GB hard drive and partitioned my drive this
> way after reading the recent partitioning thread on this list:
> /         1GB
> /usr     1GB
> /var     1GB
> /tmp     500 MB
> /home  15 GB
> 
> The only thing I have done is install KDE 3.1 and OpenOffice.org and now
> /usr is 96% full.  (/home is large due to temp. storage from another install)
> 
> Question for the list:
> What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition
> so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future?
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used        Available    Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2               964532     32044        883492         4%       /
> /dev/hda3               964532     872024      43512          96%      /usr
> /dev/hda5               964500     257156      658348        29%      /var
> /dev/hda6               474443       746         449200        1%        /tmp
> /dev/hda8             14824384  13234832    836508        95%      /home

I always give /usr 2GB.  On my laptop, /usr is using 1.5GB.  I
recently started separating out /usr/local onto it's own partition of
500MB too, since I install software there that is not part of Debian.

For your situation, you could resize / to 500MB and add that to /usr
using parted.  

jc


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