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From: unruh on 27 Feb 2010 00:10 On 2010-02-27, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 2/26/2010 11:17 AM PT, unruh typed: > >> You erase or move out everything that is currently in /others. It is now >> an empty partition. > > I don't need to worry about /others: > $ ls -all /others > total 3 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2008-09-15 13:23 . > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1024 2010-01-22 10:51 .. > drwx------ 2 root root 1024 2008-12-28 20:56 lost+found > > >> Now you copy >> rsync -avx / /others > > FYI: > sent 145432844 bytes received 109337 bytes 3064045.92 bytes/sec > total size is 145026949 speedup is 1.00 > > I thought we're only copying /boot stuff and not everything in root (/). > /sbin, /storage, /tmp, /srv, /sys. /root, /etc, /usr, /var, etc. were > copied as well. You have /boot on the brain. It is irrelevant. Most of the stuff in the kenrel is in /lib/modules, not in /boot. You are replacing your / partition to give it more room. > > >> Now, go to /others/etc/fstab and edit it and change the line that looks >> something like >> /dev/hda1 / ext3<whatever> 1 1 >> to >> /dev/hda11 / ext3<whatever> 1 1 >> and put a # at the start of the line which contains >> /dev/hda11 /others .... You can do this without grub. >> >> Now you edit the grub.conf file, or whatever debian uses to set up the >> grub, and put in a new entry for booting from /dev/hda11 instead of >> from /dev/hda1 >> >> (I hope I remember correctly that at present /others is on /dev/hda11) >> >> Now you test your system to see if it boots from the new entry in the >> menu list. >> >> If it works, you can remove the old entry, edit the new grub and >> reinstall it (I do not know grub as I use lilo, so you will have to get >> someone else to correct my errors) > > OK, I am going to wait and see if others can pitch in on Grub2. Why > still using old Lilo? :D Because it works. And is easy to set up.
From: unruh on 27 Feb 2010 00:12 On 2010-02-27, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 2/26/2010 2:44 AM PT, GangGreene typed: > >> Of course you don't. >> Just _LOOK_ at your data that you posted. >> >> Look at your /etc/fstab. >> >> /dev/hda1 is the partition that your root fiesystem is mount on...not your >> boot partition. >> >> Your boot is just a directory in the root filesystem mounted on >> the /dev/hda1 partition. >> >> If your boot was on a partition it you would have a small partition of 128MB >> or less ( I use 52MB ), mounted at /boot in /etc/fstab, although the boot >> partition really doesn't need to be mounted. > > Oh, disk partitions/setups are confusing. :) FYI: > $ cat /etc/fstab No Change /others/etc/fstab, not /etc/fstab. > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 change to #/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda7 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda9 /usr/local ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda10 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hda11 /extra ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda12 /others ext3 defaults 0 2 change to /dev/hda12 / ext3 defaults 0 1 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-flash vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0 > > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
From: Pascal Hambourg on 27 Feb 2010 04:27 Ant a �crit : > > Still have a free disk space issue for it though. :( In my other message I wrote you could free at least ~24 MB on /. Maybe that's enough to install the new kernel image. Also libc6-i686 is only recommended, you could avoid installing it with --without-recommends and save ~2 MB if needed. Isn't there some unnecessary stuff stored in /root too ?
From: wimpunk on 26 Feb 2010 11:28 On 2010-02-26, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 2/25/2010 4:16 PM PT, Don Piven typed: > >>> My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it >>> on 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall >>> (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still >>> amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel >>> (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually >>> /boot) partition: >>> > > >> If you're just looking to install Lenny on top of whatever you have now, >> you should be able to do that via APT (apt-get dist-upgrade), unless >> you're running Woody or something. As a last resort, you could move the >> stuff in your /others tree elsewhere on your system, do a cold system >> installation on /dev/hda12, and hack your GRUB or LILO config to let you >> boot from either partition. > > No, just upgrading the Kernel (2.6.32). I am still using 2.6.30 (uname > -a showed "Linux ANTian 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux"). I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by moving the current version to a bootable USB stick and moving them back after the upgrade. It is not very nice but it worked for me.
From: Bill Marcum on 27 Feb 2010 12:04
On 2010-02-26, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 2/25/2010 3:55 PM PT, unruh typed: > >>>> How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without >>>> getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? >> >> Sorry, you are very unclear. Do you have a completely separate partition >> /boot and for /? Or is /boot just a directory in /? > > $ cd / > $ ls -all > total 65 "ls" doesn't say whether /boot is a separate partition. "df" or "cat /etc/fstab" would. |