Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I''m  running SuSE 9.1 and just had a big problem arise.  My root partition 
just filled up and now things are getting real dicey.  Konqueror cannot start 
and other programs are getting flakey, too.  

The obvious solution is to use some of the unused space on another partition.  
My question is which is the best way to do that?

My root partition, hda6, is 1GB small while the unused partition is hda10 and 
is 4GB big.  Root contains, among other things, /bin , /sbin , /tmp , 
and /root.   I first thought of copying all of root to a dvd and then redoing 
the drives but that is a lot of iffy stuff for me as I'm not real confident 
the dvd writing program is doing things correctly.  Can I simply move all 
of / to /srv, which is the unused directory, then rename them in fstab?  Or 
can I simply make a link to the unused directory and move some stuff over 
there?  Or can I use something like parted or PQ Magic to resize the 
partitions without losing data?  I dont believe I can do such a thing across 
non-contiguous partitions.

It appears I will have to use a rescue disk of some sort to do any transfers.

Any suggestions are welcome, including RTFM, if you can tell me where the M 
is.

TIA,
Richard