Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 May 2007 10:13, M9. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to expand /usr, and /var, by mount --bind to a free partition.
> This does not take the message away..
> for some reason /var is spammed full with zypp stuf and xml-files, which
> are, imho unnessesary.(only, i do not know what i can throw away safely..)
>
> How can i achieve, that there is clear, that there is more space
> available at the other location?
>
> I did try to add the mounts to /etc/fstab by /dev/hdd7/usr
>
> /dev/hda6/spare/usr bind defaults 0 0, but i get the answer:
> > tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 # /dev/hdd7/usr /dev/hda6/spare/usr bind
> > defaults 0 0 bash: /dev/hdd7/usr: Niet een map
> > tribal-sfn2:/home/monkey9 #
>
> Can someone give me 'the golden tip' on how to expand a run out of space
> partition?
>
> please?
>
> ;-)

It's hard to tell without knowing usage.
In the system with single used partition for all directories, I used to switch 
to runlevel 1 nad then:
  mkdir /mnt/hdd7
  mount -t auto /dev/hdd7  /mnt/hdd7
  copy /usr  /mnt/hdd7
  umount /mnt/hdd7
  mv /usr /usr1
  mount -t auto /dev/hda7  /usr
Check that it works. 
  init 5
Put in /etc/fstab
  /dev/hdd7  /usr auto defaults 0 0
Reboot to see that it is all OK and remove /usr1. 
Instead of "auto" you can put actual file system on /dev/hdd7.
 
-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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