What can/should I move to another partition/HD ?

Post #248,724 by drewk 3/21/06 1:47:06 PM Reply	What can/should I move to another partition/HD ? I'm working on a creaky old box with two small drives, and I'm running out of space on the first. drook@drookenstein:~$ df -h\nFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/hda1 7.4G 6.9G 115M 99% /\ntmpfs 126M 4.0K 126M 1% /dev/shm\n/dev/hdb1 13G 464M 12G 4% /home I've already moved /home to hdb, and need to relocate something else. What's the best bet? I'm assuming it'd be /var. Normally I'd be looking at the speed issue, but I'm looking strictly at space concerns now. As a side issue, I need to figure out how much of Gnome I can rip out without breaking Evolution and a few other things. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,725 by inthane-chan 3/21/06 1:56:33 PM Reply	Figure out your disk usage. If /var isn't a large chunk, it's not going to help much to move it. When somebody asks you to trade your freedoms for security, it isn't your* security they're talking about.*
Post #248,728 by Yendor 3/21/06 2:14:16 PM Reply	cd / ; du . \| sort -n \| tail -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #248,765 by drewk 3/21/06 6:51:01 PM Reply	Man, that took a while to run No, not two-and-a-half hours. But more than 25 minutes before I walked away and let it run. drook@drookenstein:/$ cd / ; sudo du . \| sort -n \| tail\n442212 ./home/drook\n442220 ./home\n1138716 ./usr/lib\n1141132 ./usr/share\n2819856 ./usr\n3512344 ./var/cache/apt/archives\n3525888 ./var/cache/apt\n3539036 ./var/cache\n3908908 ./var\n7856917 . So it looks like /var would be a good candidate. Now to go look up those directions I followed for moving /home ... === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,745 by folkert 3/21/06 4:35:40 PM Reply	apt-get clean Try that first. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #248,767 by drewk 3/21/06 6:56:22 PM Reply	Whoa drook@drookenstein:/$ df -h\nFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/hda1 7.4G 6.9G 115M 99% /\ntmpfs 126M 4.0K 126M 1% /dev/shm\n/dev/hdb1 13G 465M 12G 4% /home\ndrook@drookenstein:/$ sudo apt-get clean\ndrook@drookenstein:/$ df -h\nFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/hda1 7.4G 3.6G 3.5G 51% /\ntmpfs 126M 4.0K 126M 1% /dev/shm\n/dev/hdb1 13G 465M 12G 4% /home\n Didn't expect that. Guess I need to fix my apt.conf. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,768 by Steve Lowe 3/21/06 7:12:34 PM Reply	Re: Whoa Just run it as part of your normal update routine: apt-get update &&apt-get upgrade &&apt-get clean -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #249,995 by static 3/30/06 7:58:11 AM Reply	Using /home. For years, I used to play with new software and files in all sorts of places. Everywhere except /home/wwb. Then I realized - that's exactly what my home directory is for! Now on my web server, /home has it's own 40gb disk. It has everything that would be considered 'data' on it. Even my website and a small database. My own home directory is 8Gb, including over 280Mb of mail. It means that pretty much everything else is considered 'system' and stays almost entirely static (except for updates and logs). Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."

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