[ale] before I replace this drive?

[Ken Nagorski]

No way - check it out... You put a new drive in and lets say for this
example you have a 20gig drive. You make two 10 gig partitions, hdb1 and hdb2

put the drive in the box and mount it, say on /mnt, then do from /usr

tar cvf - .|\(cd /mnt; tar xvf - \)

This will creat an exact copy of /usr in /mnt you can then change fstab to
say
/dev/hdb1     /usr      ext3     default 1 1

And reboot.. You know have a ten gig /usr partition...

Thanks
Ken



>
> I need a little advice.
>
> 1. os : redhat 7.0
> 2: 128 mbs sdram
> 3:  df  produces
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6               256667     92519    150896  39% /
> /dev/hda1                23302      2476     19623  12% /boot
> /dev/hda5              2648556   1521128    992888  61% /home
> /dev/hda9              1035660    964120     18932  99% /usr
> /dev/hda8              1873740   1306268    472292  74% /var
>
> 4: amd 450 k6
>
>
> As you can see /usr is running out of space,  Should I replace the
> drive or should mv the largest  directory in /usr to another partitions
> and then symbolically link the original? On the last question will it
> work?
>
> thanks,
> Randy
>
>
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