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Re: Upgrade kernel from 2.67?



On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:05:35AM +0100, Agustin wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:10:05 +0100, David Mandelberg wrote:
> 
> > Agustin wrote:
> >> Thanks, Adam. This is exactly what I want to do, but I'm not sure what I
> >> can delete or move. How will I find this out?
> > You can get rid of older kernels (always keep the current one though), you can
> > delete old log files (in /var/log), another thing is, if /home is on the same
> > partition, you could compress/delete files from your home.
> 
> Partition sizes and occupancy are as follows:
> 
> 		Directory		Type		Size
> 							Total		Occupied
> /dev/hdh2	/			ext3		134 Mb		134 Mb
> /dev/hdh5	/usr			ext3		3,5 Gb		2,3 Gb
> /dev/hdh6	/var			ext3		1,7 Gb		972 Mb
> /dev/hdh7	/tmp			ext3		294 Mb		8,1 Mb
> /dev/hdh8	/home			ext3		3,6 Gb		2,5 Gb
> tmpfs		/dev/shm		tmpfs		237 Mb		0 bytes
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Agustin
> 

Make a copy of /boot and its contents at /home/boot
Delete /boot and its contents
Create a soft link whose target is /home/boot and whose name is /boot

>From the point of view of file access path, /boot appears to be in the
same place, but it now has ~1Gb of extra space. You could use /usr
rather than /home. It is your choice.

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net



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