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 1GnXns-0007BF-Pr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:57:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAO9t1Y4000793; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:55:01 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAO9pqEE016404 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:51:53 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B61F83465 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:55:55 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EWF4ddj5xtG5 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:55:51 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CD68343E for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:55:51 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.2.130] ([192.168.2.130]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:53:44 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:48:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1cc2dc830611230736j2ab94d1fhd293553fe186f555@mail.gmail.com> <200611240743.44823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <200611240943.35194.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611240943.35194.michaelkintzios@gmail.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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611241148.05759.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Nov 2006 09:53:44.0937 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E1B7D90:01C70FAE] X-Archives-Salt: 835b434b-2587-4209-8511-bd756dd9f0ba X-Archives-Hash: 7b221c4b11c97c3415ead6d7dce035cd On Friday 24 November 2006 11:43, Mick wrote: > 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 (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with > the good ol' primary & logical partitions? > > Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration > files on the borked OS? For LVM you only need an initrd on the LiveCD with LVM support. It then looks at the various disks, finds the pvs and then lvs then become available. Dunno about EVMS as I have no experience with that alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list