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Re: reclaiming space from redmond!



prash wrote:

Kent West wrote:
Prashanth Narayanan wrote:
prash@mantra:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             3.8G  3.2G  389M  90% /
tmpfs                 189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6              45M  5.3M   37M  13% /boot
/dev/hda1             6.9G  6.7G  228M  97% /mnt/c
/dev/hda5             7.8G  6.7G  1.2G  86% /mnt/d
/dev/hdb1              28G   24G  4.7G  84% /mnt/g
/dev/hdb5              28G   25G  3.9G  87% /mnt/h
/dev/hdb6              28G   15G   14G  52% /mnt/i
/dev/hdb7              31G   23G  8.3G  74% /mnt/j

as you can see /dev/hda6 is where i have my "/" partition. this is 90% full.
You can use the /dev/hda6 partition for /usr, or /var, or /home
(whichever is taking up the most space on /dev/hda8).
did you mean /dev/hda5? because that is the one i need to try to merge.
Ha! First you did it; then I did. Yes, I meant 5.

assuming you meant /dev/hda5 all along, i have a question here: how can
i mount /dev/hda5 onto /tmpusr when the "/" folder has not got that
much space? am i missing something here?

Because "/tmpuser" is a "mount point", pointing to an entirely different partition, not a directory full of files on the partition containing the name of the mount point.

i am using debian like i said - i can boot from the debian cd (i also have a bootable floppy) - is this ok?


It can be done with a Debian CD, but not nearly as easily as with a LiveCD. So much so that I'm not even going to begin thinking about what's needed.


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