On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 15:15, LUK ShunTim wrote: > Hi, > > I am now on a 2.2.18 kernel (in sid already) and I'd like to upgrade to a > 2.4.x > but unfortunately I have a small (~100 Mb) / partition when I started out and > it's already quite full. Upgrading via the usual manner with apt-get and > friends > didn't do the job (and screwed things up quite a bit as a matter fact after > unpacking). > > I have /usr, /var, /home etc mounted on different partitions. One obvious way > would be to shrink other partitions and grow /, but I don't want to do that, > at > least not yet before taking a look at other (better) options. > > Therefore, I am just wondering whether there is any suggestion as to doing it > *elegantly*.
I bet its your /root/dead.letters thats filling it up, eh? If not... Elegantly, yes. Easily, no. Get some more harddrive space (another drive?). make a partition on it that will be your root. cfdisk, mke2fs. Mount it somewhere. Copy / across to it (without recursing into tree's in other filesystems). So your new partition is an exact duplicate. Adjust lilo so that root=/dev/newpart whatever that is. Reboot, make sure it works. Then take your old / and mount it somewhere temporarily. erase the files. Copy whats in /boot into there. Edit /etc/fstab so that its mounted as /boot. Erase the old boot. reboot. So basically making a new root fs, and making your existing root /boot (30 Megs or so should be enough to hold all the kernels you'll ever want) If that doesn't make absolute sense, then don't do it. Maybe du -sh to find whats taking up all the space. Kind regards Crispin Wellington
