Re: repartitioning
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Matt Price wrote:
however. htis is my primary drive, so I'm a bit unsure how to proceed.
first thing ..
- backup your /home and /etc
- get a list of installed packages
- even better, get another $40 disk ( 80GB ) for the backup
which is in fact the new "partition scheme"
( it will be 100x cheaper/faster/better/reliable to get a new disk)
well, probably that's what I should do I guess.
...
What I'd like to do:
consolidate /dev/hda1,2,3, as well as /dev/hda6,7, and perhaps /dev/hda11,12
why ... it'd still result in "too full" ??
well, no, several of those partitions are no longer used in my current
setup (they were small partitions I used for other distros before I
decided on the One True Way); so I'd gain some space overall.
my preferred partition scheme
/ 256MB
/tmp 256MB -- you really should have a separate /tmp partition
/var 4GB ( in your case ) -- what do you have in it .. geez
/usr 8GB ( in your case ) -- i assume you have lots of tgz files
swap 512MB -- stick swap someplace
/home rest of the disk
/var/www goes in user area /home/www
everything you add/change should be in /home
well, not in my case, I have a bunch of web stuff that doesn't in my
view belong in user home directories. but yes, there's a lot of cruft
on the system.
/var can be 1GB ... /usr can be 2GB ... unless its filling up with stuff
and move "dynamically growing files" into /home since it's your stuff
- let the system files be small and static and fast
can I do all this without rebooting? Or is that a pipe dream?
you will have to reboot .. or write the code so that one doesnt have
to reboot when moving partition boundries around :-)
ok, well, I'm not gonna do that until after I learn C I guess.. but
seriously, is this something that other 'nixes can do? Must this bea
fundamental barrier?
matt
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