[5588] in RedHat Linux List
Re: partition magic for Linux (I wish!!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Ghazey)
Fri Nov 22 15:04:58 1996
From: "Mick Ghazey" <mghazey@miso.lowdown.com>
To: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:01:33 +0000
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On 22 Nov 96 at 1:23, Thomas Porter wrote:
> I am using a secondary 750 MB IDE drive as my Linux system, with DOS and
> one Linux partition on my primary 1.6 GB IDE drive.
>
> The cfdisk map of the 750 MB drive looks like this:
> Partition Table for /dev/hdb
>
> First Last
> # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
> -- ------- -------- -------- ------- -------- --------------------- ---------
> 1 Primary 0 133055 63 133056 DOS 16-bit >=32M (06) None (00)
> 2 Primary 133056 1266047 0 1132992 Extended (05) None (00)
> 5 Logical 133056 193535 63 60480 Linux (83) Boot (80)
> 6 Logical 193536 241919 63 48384 Linux Swap (82) None (00)
> 7 Logical 241920 856799 63 614880 Linux (83) None (00)
> 8 Logical 856800 1266047 63 409248 Linux (83) None (00)
> Pri/Log 1266048 1425311 0 159264 Free Space None (00)
>
> My boot (/) is logical 5 followed by my swap, etc. Note the free space at
> the end. Unfortunately my / is about 80 % utilized, and logs fill up the
> rest real fast. Lots going into /tmp can fill it up as well.
>
> Is it possible to:
> a. move my boot directory to the free space at the end of the drive, if I
> create a Linux bootable partition there. Its probably past the 500 MG point.
>
> b. assuming I move my swap to the end of the drive, can I extend the boot
> partition some how after I delete the swap at logical 6?
>
> I am hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to tar everything up, create
> a rescue disk set, rub my system out, and hope I can restore from it. I
> know I ought to do this as an exercise, but I'm a little scared to try!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom Porter
> txporter@mindspring.com
Yeah, create a logical partition out of the free space. That gives
you some room to maneuver. Mount it on /mnt/xpand or whatever. Then
move /tmp to /mnt/xpand/tmp. Create a symbolic link in your root
directory, tmp -> mnt/xpand/tmp. Now all references to /tmp go to
/mnt/xpand/tmp.
I've been using this technique successfully for quite some time.
Obviously, you can offload other directories in the same manner.
You might be able to tar unneeded dirs to another partition so that
you can free it adjacent partitions. Then you can redistribute your
allocation. BTW, you might be able to live with less swap.
Mick
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