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 4.43) id 1E25Gf-0003k9-FC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:54:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78AqtQi031338; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:52:55 GMT Received: from psyche.seanreiser.com (psyche.seanreiser.com [204.225.94.97]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78AlohY013692 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:47:51 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-24-193-224-2.nyc.res.rr.com [24.193.224.2]) by psyche.seanreiser.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE25B14C0AD for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 06:48:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F73860.6090305@seanreiser.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:48:00 -0400 From: Sean Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage References: <62c482fd.82fd62c4@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 725d8be2-1337-4a21-b54e-038ba3ea63f9 X-Archives-Hash: 997d4eee16900f12fa90d6193517c5a1 Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi Tero, > what I meant with "redo my partitions" was in the way that I will > expand my gentoo partition (or try to). > I have: > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% / > udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev > /dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share > /dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows > none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > > Options: > - erase hda1 (win$) and merge with with hda4. > - somehow rearrange hda5 (which is FAT) and split it 2, and merge a > part to hda4. The question is...can you live without the windows partition? if you don't need it I would look at this: 1) Merge hda1 and hda4. Assuming this is desktop box that should be plenty of space for the system and applications 2) Create a /boot partition (assuming you don't currently have one on your box that wasn't mounted when you did the df). This way if your system crashes at least /boot will not be corrupted. 3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of choice. Mount it as /home. 4) Consider creating a swap partition. Even if you have plenty of RAM, in my experience Linux just runs better with a swap partition mounted. I would strongly suggest that you do a full backup before doing any of this. I know there are partition resizing and reformatting utilities but they I wouldn't trust them without a backup. HTH -- spr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list