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Re: Upgrade Problem



On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:00:20AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Well, I have /var on my / partition, because I started out small. I 
> symlinked the directory where the .debs go when they download (when
> using apt-get) to my /home partition because / didn't have enough space
> when I first attempted to install. Anyway, here's my df -h output:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6             147M   98M   41M  71% /
> /dev/sda7             961M  859M   53M  95% /usr
> /dev/sda1             2.5G  964M  1.5G  38% /mnt
> /dev/sda9             314M  229M   69M  77% /home
> 
> As you can see, I'm bursting at the gills in /usr...I may just start
> over with a new install because I do have room to play with (I actually
> have more disk space that isn't being used for Debian), I just need to
> reorganize it in a major way.

 GNU parted can resize ext2 partitions, and I think move them as well.  The
debian package of it is called  parted.

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