[lug] / partion to small

[David Morris]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:01:40AM +0000, j davis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during install i did not make a /usr partion. Well,..now i see why its
> common practice.My / partion has overgrown due to /usr. anyway i dont
> have any etxtra h.d.s and my only other partion is /home. I dont really
> want to use fips on my /home... So, can i move the contents of /usr
> to/home/usr and make links in /usr to /home/usr? i tried editing fstab to
> mount /home/usr as /usr....wasn't pretty, i dont suggest it....=p

Hey, at least you didn't try to move /lib to /home/lib like I did once!

ugly!

I have run into this problem a few times in the past (as you might guess
from the above), and in general the only good solution is to get a larget
disk so that you can allocate 2 GB to the root partition (and I too use
only / and /data (/home is in /data)....simplifies everything that way.

If you need to make space, you can link a few non-vital directories to a
larger partition....  /usr/src is an ideal candidate for this is you
compile a lot of programs there, and /usr/local is another great choice as
nothing vital gets put there.  Moving /usr/doc, /usr/share/doc will provide
a bit more room, but some programs could conceivably yell at you if you
move /usr/share, though it is very unlikely.

Good luck!

--David