[CLUE-Tech] Moving data between partitions?

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 09:49, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> Jeffery C. Cann wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to move space from my /var partition to my / partition?
> 
> One quick and dirty approach is to simply move large directories from your
> full partition to the more spacious one.  For example, if your /usr/local
> directory is huge and taking up too much space, move /usr/local to /var/local
> and create a symlink from /var/local back to /usr/local.  In this specific
> case there shouldn't be a need to switch to single user mode, but depending
> on what you decide to move it might be a good idea.


Lynn should get the "best support answer" on this thread, IMNSHO.

People have mentioned reformatting-and-repartitioning, LVM, and
Partition Magic.  While these are all valid approaches, they are a lot
more work (and a lot more error-prone) than just moving and soft-linking
a few directories as suggested by Lynn.

Of course, if you're moving and soft-linking critical parts of your
system then its a good idea to use something like the LinuxCare BBC or
Tom's root-boot distros so that you won't be concurrently using any of
the things that you're actually moving.

Ed

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