Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread Tasnad Kernetzky via arch-general
Hi, If you are planning to move to another drive anyways soon, did you try to free up space? My usual suspects are * pacman -Sc or -Scc * journalctl --vacuum-size=50M * logs and other stuff on /var * nfs cache Also, ncdu can be of great help to find huge files and folders you might not

Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 10/11/21 9:51 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have looked but

Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread Ben Mezger via arch-general
Can't you do something like: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/drive1/backuproot.img $ dd if=/media/drive1/backuproot.img of=/dev/sdb # write back to disk -- Ben Mezger https://seds.nl https://github.com/benmezger

Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread Josephine Pfeiffer via arch-general
I think you can use gparted to move the partition to another drive. Best, Josie On 10/11/21 15:51, pete via arch-general wrote: Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my

[arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread pete via arch-general
Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have looked but cant find an answer i do not really want to do a comp