Re: /home out of space

> > Id like to merge both of these into hda1. I know why mandrake wanted
> > /home on its own, but clearly this isnt the best choice. Can I merge
> > these two (its one physical hard drive)?
>
> Short answer is no. Peter may have been a bit cross with you, but in some
> ways he's right. I suspect you did mean that / was on /dev/hda1 (BTW,
> where is your swap space?), and maybe /usr or something is somewhere else,
> since really 2G is small these days -- though it is not impossible.

/ and /usr are both on hda1 (its a total of 5GB in size) Swap space is
1GB on hda5. Obviously the hard drive is small. But like I was
seeing, it has to be a log file filling up too quickly.

> Unless it is your /root (that is, root's home), I see no reason to assume
> you've been hacked. It could be you have used the root account too much
> (which is not good, since that opens you up for disaster in a number of
> different ways, mostly because anything you do wrong as root can be very
> destructive), or maybe you have a bunch of downloads there.

I dont use root much at all, other than when needed. The out of space
partition was /home (hda6), not /root which is on hda1.

> But there is a reason to keep partitions separate. One is that it makes
> upgrades easier to have your /home stuff, your personal files, separate
> from system files. Another is that some places get a lot of read/write
> activity: /tmp, /var (for logs), and your home space, while others don't.
> Sometimes, things can go wrong with a read/write -- not as much as in the
> past, but it can happen. Keeping all that reading and writing separate
> from the system files might keep your computer from becoming a paperweight.

Totally agree.

> >
> > Also, im a kde nut, so if this can be done via a
> > point-and-click-i-dont-wanna-type application, that would be nice.
>
> Bad idea. Some things need to be taken very seriously. Messing with
> partitions is one of them.
>

Youd think that someone would write something like this that worked,
and was no more dangerous to use than any command line utility.
Anyways, thanks for the info.

.

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