Re: [PLUG] Full Partion

[Naresh Reddy <nyg102@psu.edu>]

Well,  I will not use the /opt method. What is the best way to tar these
files (to preserve the permissions), and then copy the tared file
somewhere temporary, ,and combine the partions and then untar the file
into the new combined partion.

Naresh


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Naresh Reddy
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Eric Cunningham wrote:

> That would be application specific, wouldn't it?  Most of my bulky
> applications such as netscape and staroffice are happily self contained.
> You may need to edit your path to point to these.  Or you can reinstall a
> few of the apps if thats easier...  depending on how much configuration
> you did and how many users will be effected.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Naresh Reddy wrote:
>
> > But when I move some bulky applications (Mathematica) to /opt won't they
> > have linking problems?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Eric Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > > This isn't exactly what you're asking for but when I've run out of room on
> > > /usr, I move some of the extra more bulky applications over to /opt.  I
> > > noticed you don't have a /opt defined so it'd be an easy add.
> > >
> > > -eric
> > >
> > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a partion (/usr) which is almost full, I have another partion
> > > > completly free (/dev/hda4). Is there a way I can merge these two partions
> > > > together? To create a larger one?
> > > > My disk report is the following (don't know if its helpful):
> > > >
> > > > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > > /dev/hda1              1921156   1012856    810708  56% /
> > > > /dev/hda5              1676080    126472   1464468   8% /home
> > > > /dev/hda6              1921156    918920    904644  51% /mp3
> > > > /dev/hda7              1921156   1491804    331760  82% /usr
> > > >
> > > > I already created a Filesystem for /dev/hda4 (which is ext3).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Naresh
> > > > -----------------------------------
> > > > Naresh Reddy
> > > > nyg102@psu.edu
> > > > http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102
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