On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Max wrote: > I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but > I have tons of space left in /home. Here's what df shows: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 497667 35357 436608 7% / > /dev/sda5 497667 385312 86653 82% /var > /dev/sda6 2478138 2271514 78508 97% /usr > /dev/sda7 4616953 643170 3734818 15% /home
My suggestion? Too late to do it now, but DON'T PARTITION so much. Make three partitions (IMHO primary partitions for all three) as follows: /dev/sda1 500MB / /dev/sda2 120MB <swap> /dev/sda3 <rest> /usr Create /usr/home and symlink /home to /usr/home. Create /usr/var and symlink /var there. Now, your poor overworked disk head will have less partition-wide hunting to do to go from ~/<yourfiles> to /var/log/<yourlogs>, and the only space crisis you'll run into is filling the whole disk. If you can do that, than, well, you've got yourself a legitimate problem. >From O'Reilly's System Perfomance Tuning (http://www.ora.com) by Mike Loukides (I think - please don't shoot me if I'm wrong), if at all possible, don't use more than one partition per disk. On a single disk system, I prefer to bend the rules just a little bit: separating the root filesystem makes sense to me, and a swap partition is important. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Systems and Networks Administrator Jlink Internet Services 1000 S. Market St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bloomsburg, PA 17815 (717)389-6400
