From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GnXep-0003QH-Vr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:47:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAO9je2I009326; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:45:40 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAO9hf14007089 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:42 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so609830ugc for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:43:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ac46CZtfGICBZc8bDF3f+2bpz6PssUSwA7fmxF09pYRYcfErSU1lTJIMBJMsg/toJqsTeJPhgXa8mUGpi5BRbF3uu2mCyW9uEptT+a0jcVfbiY6fiSDmF9PokoI9XvpG55L8YVvzbkKL1Ii+/rspJfrHzGzYel4BRf9U5Eb+IZ0= Received: by 10.67.119.13 with SMTP id w13mr6739206ugm.1164361420817; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy ( [86.140.42.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x33sm13264388ugc.2006.11.24.01.43.39; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:43:40 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1cc2dc830611230736j2ab94d1fhd293553fe186f555@mail.gmail.com> <200611240743.44823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <200611240743.44823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4964803.zQKSO7tciS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611240943.35194.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f1b74a26-0704-4285-87e1-faafc45e0aaa X-Archives-Hash: e1091ed57744cf2b98cddf777a358bff --nextPart4964803.zQKSO7tciS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a > different proposal. > > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the > new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugin, then > grow the filesystem to occupy the new space. > > For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical > volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an > online-resizable filesystem. In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a LiveCD= =20 (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the good ol'=20 primary & logical partitions? Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration files = on=20 the borked OS? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4964803.zQKSO7tciS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFZr7H5Fp0QerLYPcRAi+MAKCTuPuHDSNMBP9fzsrEqFAHsvE44QCcCaMc mTFmrB6o3eYF5uR+LtUAdbk= =3roX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4964803.zQKSO7tciS-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list