On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:57:39AM +0100, David Wright wrote:
With a fairly typical developer install, with Gnome and KDE loaded on my laptop, that crashed through the 10GB barrier that YaST suggests at install time. If I'd thought that I might need such a big app and had made allowances for it when setting up the machine it would have been OK, but I hadn't thought about it. This means however that tools like Requisite Pro and Websphere and the testing tools can't be added at all without re-jigging the partitions (I'd probably need 20-30GB of space for root or /opt to install the complete suite).
First, needing 20-30 GB of space can not be an option as default. If you are going to install somethin that needs 30GB of /, I would expect you to know that. yes, there is a very easy way to go about this, asuming you have plenty of space on /home. If you have only 20GB left on your 30GB HD and you need 30GB, then you indeed need to re-jig your partitions and perhaps even re-install. Even then the HD might nog be large enough. So if you have enough space on your HD, this is what you can do: Make a directory /home/opt (or even /home/opt/IBM_LARGE_PRGRM). Rename /opt to /opt_old symlink /home/opt to /opt copy all of /opt_old to /opt Once all works, you can delete /opt_old You can do this with each and every directory. If you need e.g. a larger /tmp, you can do that as well. If you use more then one directory, I would sugest something like /home/DIRS/opt and /home/DIRS/tmp An extra advantage is that when you do a new installation with a newer version, or even a new OS, that data is still available on your second partition. Disadvatage is that people will cry out loud because it is in the /home directory structure. As it is your machine, you can decide what is more important: Having a slightly off, but working personal PC or going through the trouble of re-formatting and having a nice clean /home. ;-) houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau