[SPARCbook] running out of space...

[Ken Hansen]

Why not get an external drive, copy your internal drive to it, re-arrange the partitions to your liking, then migrate the software back on to the laptop drive?

All you would need would be a 2 Gig HD (or smaller?), and after you rearrange the partitions, you could use it for storage of in-frequently accessed files?

Just a thought...

Ken

------Original Message------
From: Jonathan Kalbfeld <jonathan at thoughtwave.net>
To: SPARCbook List <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: March 26, 2001 5:50:04 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] running out of space...


Well, you could probably safely move /usr/bin over to /usr_bin and symlink
 since that's about 30MB (on my box) and then move /usr/lib over to
/usr_lib and symlink it.

Since / gets mounted first, you should be fine moving stuff *on* to /, but
it usually only gets tricky when you try and move stuff that is normally
on / onto another filesystem.

If anyone wants to see about getting a bulk discount for those ADTX
thingies, I'd be interested in buying a couple.  I want to put a 12GB disk
in my 3gx.

jonathan

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, jon fabian wrote:

> hello all,
>
> i am running out of room in /usr on my 1.2GB drive and am looking for a
> way to expand. with solaris 2.6, openwindows, cde _and_ gnustep/window
> maker installed, here's the picture:
>
> #df -k
> Filesystem             kbytes    used    avail  capacity   Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0      297983   35023   233162     14%     /
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6      692438  616112    20931     97%     /usr
> /proc                       0       0        0      0%     /proc
> fd                          0       0        0      0%     /dev/fd
> swap                   127484     192   127292      1%     /tmp
>
> FWIW i bought it used and inherited the partition table  :-)
>
> is there a way to symlink part of / to /usr/local ... or safely grow /usr
> without nuking the system ... or does anyone have an extra 2GB disk for sale?
>
> and yes, i could live without cde, but IMHO openwindows is butt-ugly, and
> window maker causes so many core dumps it's almost not worth having (but
> is mighty fine looking...)
>
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