Simon wrote: > > I've filled up my /usr file system and I want to expand it (I've moved > my other file system off that disk). Under UNIX there is a chfs command > which allows me to extend the size of the file system without wiping it > out. I can't find anything equivalent in any linux manual. Can you tell > me if something exists and where to look? >
As far as I know it is not currently possible. What you can do is move certain directories in /usr to their own partition. Be sure to maintain all the right permissions. I guess a good (large) candidate for a separate partion would be /usr/lib. You would then do something like: 0) back up all you want to keep 1) make a new partition 2) mount it under, e.g., /mnt 3) cd /usr/lib; cp -a * /mnt 4) boot with the rescue floppy, rewrite /etc/fstab to reflect the new situation, don't delete the contents of /usr yet 5) boot, see if everything works (run X w some apps) 6) boot again w the rescue floppy and remove the stuff in /usr/lib on the /usr partition BUT FIRST: Wait until our fellow debian-user readers shot their holes in this procedure of mine :) OK, start firing... HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
