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 1E2bhO-0004HJ-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:31:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79LT0hD024394; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:29:00 GMT Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.6.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79LKkpj030586 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:20:46 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp18.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKZ006U34NJOF@smtp18.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:21:02 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <42F91E3E.4000102@planet.nl> 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 X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <62c482fd.82fd62c4@planet.nl> <42F73860.6090305@seanreiser.com> <42F7AA76.4050308@seanreiser.com> <42F8F520.3060105@seanreiser.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3148cf06-b9a1-4019-8086-ffc3dcecf68b X-Archives-Hash: 8f457e99ad68c63f45194a27627f358b Fernando Meira schreef: > I've been looking for comments about this process... and I got a little > bit scared. > In my case, i have (in order): > - /dev/hda1 - 9.8G windows > - /dev/hda2 - EXTENDED > - /dev/hda5 - 23G share > - /dev/hda3 - 512Mb swap > - /dev/hda4 - 4.6G gentoo > > So, am I wrong or is it impossible to merge hda1 and hda4 with hda5 in > between? > I could rearrange swap and even create /boot, but I wont be able to move > (at least at the time being) my share partition. > If I'm right, then what are my choices? Honestly, I'm not quite sure why you feel the driving need to merge anything. *You are a Linux user. You can mount partitions wherever you want.* I don't think you can "merge" hda1 and hda4 without setting up LVM, but there's no reason that you can't boot from a LiveCD, mount the newly-empty hda1 to /mnt/temp, rsync the contents of /usr (or /var, or whatever) to that partition, rename the current /var (or /usr, or whatever) folder to var(usr).tmp, then edit your fstab to mount hda1 to /var. If it all works properly, erase /var(usr).tmp, and the space is free. That's how most of us get extra space "on the fly" when there's no other choice and it has to be done relatively quickly and with minimal disturbance (as opposed to major repartitioning that might be necessary for something like setting up LVM). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list