Ok, I see what you mean about the single user mode.
I wasn't too fond of the layout when I did it originally, but being a
newbie and piecing together what I could from the book and this list,
that is what I came up with. Now, like you say, the only way to cleanly
recover is start from scratch.
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From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving directories
Mike:
>Ok, I believe I follow what you're talking about. Why would moving
/var
>to /home be dangerous ?
Because they are directories that could be used during single user mode.
>Are there other directories that you would suggest moving to free up
>more space on / ?
I do not know all of the particulars of what Linux wants during single
user mode. Something like /var/run looks like it shouldn't move. The
/var/tmp should either. the log directory should stay put. You just
need to
clean it more often :-) Carefully go through the directory structure
and
see what can be moved.
Also, even though you may not boot to single user mode, some of these
files
might start their accessing before /home gets mounted.
Even on Sun systems, when I've moved some things in /var, they were
moved
to /usr. The two file systems that always get mounted are / and /usr.
I don't have your layout handy, but /usr, if it existed, wasn't very big
either.
I hate to say this, but I would never have laid out a structure like
yours.
Here is what I have for my main partitions:
/dev/hda1 468387 81311 362886 18% /
/dev/hda3 4501236 1066992 3201302 25% /usr
Yep, only two. Others do not like what I have, but it means that I
don't
run out of space because I made something too small. Right now /home
i still in /. I'm the only one on the system and have only used 21MB of
the space. If it gets to be a problem, then I just move /home to
/usr/home
and create the symbolic link. The /home directory is definately a
multiuser
item, so it can easily move.
Filesystem layout is definatelu a personal decision. Some like a
separate
/var, while I don't.
The only other way to fix the problem is to rebuild the filesystems from
scratch. Backup all your data and reload Linux on newly created
partitions.
A painful process and done as a last resort.
MB
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