[ale] before I replace this drive?

Randolph C. Karrh randy at newriverplt.com
Mon Mar 18 12:27:42 EST 2002


James;

Thanks for the help, I think I'll just mv and ln -s the larger directories
right now. Sooner or latter I'll add and additional drive.

thanks again,
Randy


On 18 Mar 2002 11:06:23 -0500
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

> Since you have nearly a G left on /home, moving stuff to a new directory
> and them symlinking will solve the space problem at least temporarily.
> It just gets hard to keep moving stuff around :)
> 
> If you can afford an additional hard drive, stick it in and make it
> /home. Then give all the old home space to /usr
> 
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:03, Randolph C. Karrh wrote:
> > Greetings :
> > 
> > I need a little advice.
> > 
> > 1. os : redhat 7.0 
> > 2: 128 mbs sdram
> > 3:  df  produces
> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda6               256667     92519    150896  39% /
> > /dev/hda1                23302      2476     19623  12% /boot
> > /dev/hda5              2648556   1521128    992888  61% /home
> > /dev/hda9              1035660    964120     18932  99% /usr
> > /dev/hda8              1873740   1306268    472292  74% /var
> > 
> > 4: amd 450 k6
> > 
> >  
> > As you can see /usr is running out of space,  Should I replace the drive or should mv the largest 
> > directory in /usr to another partitions and then symbolically link the original? On the last question will it work?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Randy 
> > 
> > 
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