[plug] linking to different drives

[Kenworthy Family]

I recently added a new HD after I filled the old one up.  Formatted into two e2fs
partitions, copied /usr to /usrnew on one and /home to /homenew.  Shut down to
runlevel 1 and renamed the old /usr and /home, mounted the new HD and renamed the
directories.  Unmounted the HD and rebooted.  Mounted automaticaly on bootup
(manually setup fstab before booting), no errors or problems.  Left it a few days
before deleting the old directories just in-case but turned out never needed them
again.

As an aside, it was a 17gig disk and I know the figures are rubbery and linux
also reserves a buffer out of the size, but 500meg out of 4.3 gigs and
approximately the same from each partician of the 17 gig seems a bit over the top
- anyone know what linux does with the space?

BillK

[root at Ralph vnc]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used  Avail  Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1             3.8G  305M   3.3G      8%   /
/dev/hdb1             7.7G  2.4G   4.9G     33%   /usr
/dev/hdb5             7.8G  3.5G   3.9G     47%   /home
[root at Ralph vnc]#


russ wrote:

> Steve Baker wrote:
> >
> > Russ,
> >
> > You would be better off putting your /usr directory onto the second hard
> > drive, on another partition.  This is a much cleaner way than lots of
> > symbolic links, although the links do come in handy on occasion for doing
> > this type of thing.  You can then free up that space on your first drive.
> > Is /usr in it's own partition at the moment?  Or is it just hanging off the
> > / filesystem?
>
> /usr and /home are on hdc1. But just checking I see that df -k shows:
>
> /dev/hda1  292710 284404    0  100%  /
>
> That doesn't look right. I may have stuffed that drive up in the
> process. :(