At 05:04 PM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
If / is that large, what subdirectory is the biggest? Is /home or /opt in / and not on a separate partition? I would guess you have a LOT of downloaded stuff there that is bloating / unreasonably large.
You can easily do a backup of the bulk of the stuff there to get it out of the way. Maybe put it off onto CDs to recover the space. Then after reducing the space required, the actual OS part of / should be about 3 - 5 GB instead of the current 38GB. That could be moved to a new partition in its entirety and by making a small change in grub.conf and fstab you could boot to the new partiton for your system.
Once the old / partition is not in use you would be free to do whatever was needed to resize it.
This sounds like the most viable option yet, although I am not familiar with the changes I'd have to make to fstab and grub.conf.
Suppose that I just want to move something like /home or /var to another partition. What changes would I need to make to fstab to make it happen?
The main reason for all of this is because I'd like to copy a 6.5GB database from one of my web servers (hosted elsewhere) to my local machine for testing, and I need to create space for it. If I could just move /var to another partition, that would solve my problem (and hopefully I'd learn more in the process).
Thanks,
Shane
