Re: making /var bigger
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
Hey everyone:
I've got some unformatted disk space and I'd like to use it to make /var
bigger. This is my existing system:
htdig@debian:/$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 464M 27M 413M 7% /
/dev/hda3 4.6G 1.6G 2.8G 37% /home
/dev/hda5 2.3G 1.2G 1023M 55% /usr
/dev/hda6 464M 396M 44M 91% /var
/dev/hda7 2.8G 46M 2.6G 2% /usr/local
/dev/hda9 46M 60K 44M 1% /tmp
I also have a windows partition (or two) with approximately 8Gb available.
I was thinking of giving /var 2.6Gb total (adding 2Gb). This is a laptop
so the log files
aren't critical for anything fun like web servers. I don't leave my mail
in /var/mail (I move it over to my home directory). I'm currently running
Woody (unstable).
1. What do I need to do before I add the extra disk space? I can throw the
entire current partition onto a cdrom as a backup. Is there anything else
I need to do?
Backup is always a good idea.
I'd boot into single-user mode to do the actual change-over.
2. How do I actually resize a partition? Is "parted" a good package?
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/parted.html
I've never use parted; resizing Windows partitions depends on the file
system (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc). If it's FAT16/32, I've used fips
(booting off a DOS floppy to run it).
You can either "add" the 2GB to your existing /var partition, by
mounting some subdirectory under /var onto the new partition, or you can
create a new 2.6GB partition, initialize the new partition (mkfs
/dev/hda2), mount that partition (mount /dev/hda2 /mnt) and then move
the data from your existing /var to the new var (cp -a /var/* /mnt),
then umount both partitions, re-mount the new partition on /var (mount
/dev/hda2 /var), and make the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab. This
second method will leave an unused 464MB partition in the middle of your
drive though; however, with some more shuffling, you could add it to
your existing /usr partition, or use it as a spare partition of some
sort, perhaps for compiling your programs.
Perhaps parted makes all of this much simpler than I've been doing; I
just don't know.
3. Without meaning to start a huge debate, is my current space allocation
ok? I'm using my laptop as a development box. It has apache, mysql, open
office, a bunch of browsers and vim.
Seems okay to me.
Really, what else does a girl need?
;)
Drool - a geek girl - ga-a-ah drool slobber
thanks!
emma :)
And I've always liked the name Emma, ever since Emma Sams was in the
BigTime.
Kent
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