1. Forum
  2. FidoNet
  3. ALT.OS.LINUX.MAGEIA

  • Re: Partitioning the disk

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Mon Apr 6 02:54:40 2026
    You o know that you can link to another partition. For example I have
    /home on a directory called /local. So /home is linked to /local/home.
    It is silly to have /home on /, since / gets replaced on upgrade, making
    /home be on a partition with major changes is dangerous.
    Or you could put /usr/share onto /local say and link /usr/share to that directory.
    rsync -av /usr/share /local/usrshare
    rm -rf /usr/share
    ln -sf /local/usrshare /usr/share


    Use rsync not cp to copy files. rsync goes to great pains to make sure
    that what is transfered is the same as what was in the original. cp
    does not.

    On 2026-04-05, kyuzo <[email protected]> wrote:
    I have to partition again my disk, too little space for root partition,
    so i must save my /home partition in a temporary external disk (all the files, of course the hidden too), shrink the /home partition and enlarge
    the root one.
    a cp command is enough for the migration of the /home files?
    and which parameters add to the command?
    And could I verify the correct migration then, mounting the /home on the external disc?
    Tanks in advance.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.7 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From kyuzo@2:250/1 to All on Mon Apr 6 09:57:18 2026
    Il 06/04/26 03:54, William Unruh ha scritto:
    You o know that you can link to another partition. For example I have
    /home on a directory called /local. So /home is linked to /local/home.
    It is silly to have /home on /, since / gets replaced on upgrade, making /home be on a partition with major changes is dangerous.
    Or you could put /usr/share onto /local say and link /usr/share to that directory.
    rsync -av /usr/share /local/usrshare
    rm -rf /usr/share
    ln -sf /local/usrshare /usr/share


    Thanks a lot, all of you!
    My problem was a stupid partition of a 1GB disc, where I dedicated only
    15GB for / partition and the rest for /home one.
    It was good 10 years ago (my pc is older than that) but now it is not
    enough.


    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.7 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Wed Apr 8 06:06:00 2026
    On 2026-04-06, kyuzo <[email protected]> wrote:
    Il 06/04/26 03:54, William Unruh ha scritto:
    You o know that you can link to another partition. For example I have
    /home on a directory called /local. So /home is linked to /local/home.
    It is silly to have /home on /, since / gets replaced on upgrade, making
    /home be on a partition with major changes is dangerous.
    Or you could put /usr/share onto /local say and link /usr/share to that
    directory.
    rsync -av /usr/share /local/usrshare
    rm -rf /usr/share
    ln -sf /local/usrshare /usr/share


    Thanks a lot, all of you!
    My problem was a stupid partition of a 1GB disc, where I dedicated only
    15GB for / partition and the rest for /home one.
    It was good 10 years ago (my pc is older than that) but now it is not enough.

    Nope it is not, especially not with /var also in /, with all of the log
    files. (my /usr is over 15GB-- near 20GB) and on another server 36GB


    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.7 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)