On Sunday 27 April 2003 20:46, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Let me ask this...my / directory is about 8GB and my /home 2GB. If in the future I need more for /home, can I go to the partition program and make my / directory smaller and increase my /home?
You should try lvm for a while, in order to reach a flexible system. Usually, it is better to detatch all from / partition: my / partition is usually <256Mb, and never put this one under lvm, or problems loading the driver with initrd will lead to kernel panics. All the other can go under lvm, so you will be able to resize them as needed. /usr is usually aroung 2Gb, opt a little smaller (this is true only for Suse, which has a fairly strange idea on where to puts things, because after a clean install /opt should be empty, like RH or debian do). Just to give hints... /dev/hda3 251M 131M 107M 56% / /dev/pool/data 9.4G 8.9G 70M 100% /home /dev/pool/opt 1.5G 1.3G 118M 92% /opt /dev/pool/usr 2.5G 2.0G 433M 83% /usr /dev/pool/var 809M 173M 595M 23% /var /dev/pool/tmp 764M 17M 709M 3% /tmp For the LVM part, my laptop is equipped with a dual installation, suse 8.2 and debian. So under lvm i created three volume groups: suse, debian and shared. - under shared I have /tmp, swap and /home; - under suse I have /usr and /opt (nearly the same size), and /var - under debian a big /usr, very little /opt and a medium sized /var (due to apt) Hope will help. -- Andrea Negro andrea@alessandria.linux.it ICQ 25458773