Re: Partition Help
hi ya "information"
there are varying schools of thought on partitions...
- i like / to be as small as possible...
- i like partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, /opt
and than worry about backups of /etc and /opt only
( /opt aka /home )
- "system stuff" is already on the original cdrom
and all over the net for other files you'd need
- collection of partition stuff...
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Installation/partition.gwif.html
- if you are moving (partition) stuff around and/or playing...
- be sure to save your important data first..to a different
disk/system
c ya
alvin
http://www.Linux-Sec.net
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Chris Wagner wrote:
> So right now everything is on the / partition? Then what you want to do is
> blow away that huge unused partition and make partitions for atleast /tmp
> /var /home. /usr if you want plus the swap. You need to size out how much
> room each of those dir trees is going to need. Then take the box offline
> and mount the new partitions to /mnt. e.g. /mnt/var. Edit /etc/mtab to
> mount the new partions at boot. Then move the old dirs under / to their new
> locations. e.g. mv /var /mnt/var. Then reboot. The box shouldn't know the
> difference.
>
> At 08:38 AM 9/10/01 -0500, Information wrote:
> >We noticed the other day that we only had about 200 meg of space left left
> >on the drive. We did a df and found we only had 950 meg of space on the /
> >partition. We have an extended that that is the rest of the drive with a
> >regular Linux partition and the swap at the end. Our problem is the box does
> >not see this. We need to have this space and are not sure how to proceed.
> >Can we:
> >A. remove the extended and swap partition and put new ones in with the
> >needed space applied to /usr -- /var -- and /home and add /swap and not
> >loose the clients we have?
> >B. If so can we do this from the command line or from Webmin?
> >C. Will we have to do this from a console into the machine?
>
>
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