On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0800, Antony wrote: > I have a Debian system on really small Flash memory like an embed system. A > hard drive is mounted onto the system. I want to add more processes to the > system like mail server. But the problem is /usr, /var, /etc are running out > of space on the Flash memory. I'm planning to do the following: > > - make /usr, /var, /etc, /home directories on the mounted hard drive. > - copy /usr, /var, /etc, /home original directories to new created > directories. > - edit /etc/fstab to mount these directories to new created locations. > - remove the old /usr, /var, /etc, /home directories. > > Is that unsafe to do so? > Do files in these directories being accessed before mounting from > /etc/fstab?
Let me get this straight.... you are going to update fstab, which resides in /etc, with information telling the system how to mount /etc? Moving /usr, /var and /home should be fine - it is quite normal to have those as separate filesystems. You shouldn't really have to move /etc (it shouldn't grow that much) but if you really want to it won't be a simple minded task. Regards, DigbyT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
