partition question

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 12:31 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> R Kimber wrote:
> 
> > My /usr partition is getting fairly full (86% use) and I wondered if
> > there was anything simple that I could do to extend its effective
> > size before any problems arise.  I have plenty of space on other
> > partitions, including one that is unused.
> 
> In short, pick a big directory, move it to another partition and
> symlink to it is generally the most pain-free way to do it, but is
> probably not the ideologically purest way of doing it :)
> 
> It's safest to boot into single-user when you do it, though, to make
> sure you'll not be annoying anything by pulling /usr out from
> underneath it.

I use /opt on a large partition, for my local stuff... would that help?
Ric



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