Re: Maximal Mount Count
*- On 9 Mar, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "Maximal Mount Count"
> The main partition of my laptop is at 96%.
>
> It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine.
>
> What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st
> partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more
> software there?
>
> What directory trees can safely be moved to another partition?
>
Most commonly /usr, /var, /home and /opt(not really used yet in
Debian) are each on their own partitions. Do a 'du -sm /usr', etc. to
see how many megs each tree is taking up so you can judge how much
space to give the new partion, with room to grow of course.
--
Brian
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