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Carlino
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 Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: increase / [solved] |
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Hello all,
I'd need to increase the / partition, since some heavy packages don't fit when emerged, (/usr gets overloaded). I've worked on what NeddySeagoon adviced me (as you can read in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-495617-highlight-carlino.html), but it wasn't really enough. I know I could just move what needs room to another partition. But well... I was wondering what way would be best in order to increase /, getting disk space from /home, just next.
check my fstab :
| Code: | /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/hda7 /hdshare vfat defaults,noatime 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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/home can be shortened with no risk of losing files, since there's none. I thought about using partition magic, on boot, or the fdisk utility, but I doubt about this last one, since I think it's just going to delete partitions and recreate them with a different size... which would suck.
| Code: | df -a
/dev/hda5 5036284 3766936 1013516 79% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
udev 257900 224 257676 1% /dev
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/hda2 101105 5873 90011 7% /boot
/dev/hda6 50403000 140860 47701784 1% /home
/dev/hda7 14532616 2706440 11826176 19% /hdshare
none 257900 0 257900 0% /dev/shm
usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb |
any idea ?
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nixnut
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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With parted you can resize partitions. But you might want to take a look at /usr/portage/distfiles first. That's where the source tarballs get stored. Unless you clean that directory out now and again you'll loose a lot of space to tarballs that have no reason to be on your system anymore. Another thing you might look into is lvm2 which makes it a lot easier to manage diskspace.
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Carlino
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Thanx nixnut ! I'm gonna try this
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| You will probably want to have a look at the gparted livecd. |
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Carlino
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Well well well.... I tryed all the options I've been told about : dealing with parted or gparted wasn't really simple since I would have had to umount filesystem being used at the very moment... boot from a LiveCD and so on... I also tryed to move /usr/portage to /home, since this directory was the one getting filled up, when runing emerge. I change the PORTDIR variable to /home/portage, but still, when emerging, I'd get:
| Code: | !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the '/etc/make.profile' symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete? |
Didn't really know what it meant,so.... since there's a dual boot on, I booted on Window, (sorry 'bout that), installed Partition Magic, and did the trick... oh yeah, my goal was to resize /, taking room from it's neighbor /home. And it worked out... Quite scarying though !
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