Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1983 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 crumb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 	I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran 
> updatedb and...BOOM!  My / partition is full!  I made it 95MB at 
> install, thinking that would be more than enough.  I guess I was 
> wrong!  My question is:  WVDial is the only thing I have installed 
> over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other 
> than a re-install?  I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is 
> what puzzles me about this.  Should / fill up so easily?  TIA.

You can try this:
1. Use fdisk and create a new partition of the desired size.
2. Mount it under /mnt for now
3. cd /
4. find . -xdev -depth -print | cpio -pdumv /mnt
5. make changes to /mnt/etc/fstab (change /dev/sda# for root fs)
6. make changes to /etc/lilo.conf and /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
7. run lilo
8. reboot

I did not test it on linux, but similar thing worked for me on AIX.
Just in case have a backup handy (-;

-alexm

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