Davi C. Rodrigues said the following on 10/16/2013 04:01 PM:
Is there a safe and easy way to enlarge the root partition?
Probably not if you are using primary partitions and they are back-to-back. As Patrick says, if you use LVM then you have a lot more flexibility. What you could do is add another drive, format that (possibly as LVM showing foresight) and migrate /var or something to it. I have unloaded a lot of the root fs. As people have pointed out, since initrd mounts /usr you don't need to have that as part of the rootFS. I've put the huge libraries I have for perl and Ruby into separate partitions so /usr could be in a smaller one. Using LVM you can make smaller specialized partitions for managing in different ways. Networked workstations can share a /usr/share/ on a server. I Depending on your disk layout you *might* be able to migrate /home to another drive , remove that partition from the main drive and expand the root FS into the space you've just freed up. Drives are cheap :-) A 1T from Tiger is about $70. Slight more at BestBuy. And yes, there are 160T drives coming out now! -- “When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions.” —Dale Carnegie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org