I want to upgrade to 11.2 from 10.3. I was looking at disk usage
and noticed the last time I set up my system, I allocated too much space to the / partition. It’s only 50% used, while /home is 83% used. Rather than resizing and messing up /home, I thought about just adding a new partition created from the / partition. Call it say /data or something and put music, pics, pdf files and such there. But, would it be automatically mounted and what about permissions? Any ideas?
This explaining of:
. what you have
. what you want to have
is not complete and thus it is a bit difficult to guide you from the first to the second situation.
E.g. when you are going to use your present / (root) partition for data, where does your new root partition come from?
In any case, to get an idea about the disks/partitions you have, post the output of (as root)
I hope you are basing your concerns strictly upon percentage usage. I have separate / and /home partitions. My / is 44% usage, but that is 11G used out of 25G. My /home is 42%, but that is 118G out of 296G. For me, freeing space on / for /home would be an insignificant improvement.
If indeed your /home is small and the free space on / would be a significant addition, you can do one of two things: a) resize / and create a new partition or b) create a directory, say /music, and bind mount it under, say /home/music.
I agree with Knurpht. It is the solution that comes first to mind. It is something that you as a user can do on many places inside ‘your’ directories and files, why not here? And an
ln -s ... ....
is easy to understand.
When you want to mount a directory (not a partition) somewhere else, extra actions (by root) must be taken (the bind mount). It can all be done, but BotKeeper does not make it easy to the OP by not explaining how to do this realtive obscure way of mounting.
On 03/06/2010 11:36 AM, reddogg wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> I want to upgrade to 11.2 from 10.3. I was looking at disk usage
> and noticed the last time I set up my system, I allocated too much
> space to the / partition. It’s only 50% used, while /home is 83% used.
> Rather than resizing and messing up /home, I thought about just adding a
> new partition created from the / partition. Call it say /data or
> something and put music, pics, pdf files and such there. But, would it
> be automatically mounted and what about permissions? Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> reddogg
>
>
Not a problem, you need to account for growth /var/ /tmp/ /usr/ /etc/
/lib/ on / (root) but usually 8-10 GB is more than enough for/ (root)
unless you’re running a Development Workstation, HTTP or Database
Server. /tmp is the dumpster for a distro when that fills up you can’t
get to the Desktop or sometimes boot.
You don’t have to symlink it to /home or /home/$user but you can. My
/dev/sdb1 is allocated to /local not symlinked under /home and I’m smart
enough to use folders and files on that partition.
Thanks for the ideas. I would never have thought of using a dir and symlinking or mounting it. I may redo the partitioning anyway and take room from windows as it is only 32% used. Here’s df:
I wonder if resizing will mess up /home? Maybe I’ll be lucky but will backup anyway just to be safe. I wanted to avoid that by adding a new partition.
thanks again,
reddogg
I advise a clean install for rather than an upgrade (10.3-11.2) there are just too many differences in the OS and the apps. IMO just back up your home and do a complete makeover.