Eeek, dave, you gotta wrap your lines at 70 to 76 characters.. (thank god for vim's reformatting.. :)
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:43:55AM -0500, Dave McFadden wrote: [/dev/hda3 == 100mb, much drive space left] > > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount > it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than > extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right > now. :-) Well, one thing you could do is mount your /dev/hda4 to /mnt/target, mkdir /mnt/target/usr and copy everything from /usr to /mnt/target/usr, same for /etc /tmp /sbin /bin /var etc.. and use that as your new root partition (probably should update lilo as well.. :) -or- just do ONE of the directories (probably /usr, maybe /home..) and then mount /dev/hda4 to /usr (or /home..) and setup your /etc/fstab to remount it there at boot. > I also have a new 8.4G drive that I could simply build a new filesystem on > now that I'm older and wiser, but I don't find a tool that does that, and > with My tiny system now clogged at 99% used, I don't think I could install > it... or don't know how. This is certainly tempting... :) > Any and all suggestions on how to grow the storage space on my box would > be greatly appreciated. > > Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
