Re: running out of room on root system
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Campbell wrote:
Paul> hard drive partitions
Paul> hda1 root 50meg
Paul> hda2 swap 100meg
Paul> hda3 usr 2 gig
Paul> hda5 home 2 gig
Paul> hda6 fat32 storage for transferred win docs etc
Mike> Do this, but make sure you don't reboot before this has
Mike> completed.
Mike> mv /var /vr
Mike> mv /vr /usr/var
The last command won't work: mv cannot move directories across
partitions. Replace it with this:
mkdir /usr/var
(cd /vr && tar cf - .) | (cd /usr/var && tar xf -)
rm -rf /vr
Mike> ln -s /usr/var /var
Do this in single user mode (as suggested in another post).
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