Re: Out of room on /usr partition

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/07/04

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    Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:52:05 +0100
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    On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:54:03 -0600, Ian T. <itschaotic@yahoo.ca> wrote:
    > Hi there.
    > I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple
    > of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box
    > is an old PII with 256 RAM.
    >
    > I have room elsewhere but searching didn't turn up any recipes for
    > linking or otherwise telling the system to use some other more roomy
    > areas when it needs to write to /usr/bin.
    >
    > I could un-install a bunch of stuff but it's the kids box and they seem
    > to be comfortable with what's there now.
    >
    > Any ideas would be welcome.
    >
    > /dev/sda2 = / reiserfs
    > /dev/sda3 = /home reiserfs
    > /dev/sda5 = /usr reiserfs
    > /dev/sda6 = /var reiserfs
    > /dev/sda6 - /boot reiserfs
    >
    > I had trouble with archived software in the /var too but got that moved
    > easily.
    >
    > This is my first successful attempt to have a full time Debian box up
    > and I must say it's a pleasure to have so little maintenance!
    >

    If there's free space on the HD you can try to resize the /usr
    partition, else you can try to resize another partition to create free
    space, beware, do a backup before touching the HD.

    Other, you can create another partition in another disk, copy the
    contents of /usr, modify your /etc/fstab to point at the new one and
    you are basically done.

    You can save 10~20 Mb if you install "localepurge" package, not enough
    but better than nothing.

    Andrea

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