<div>On 5/13/08, Teo <<a href="mailto:teo666@linuxmail.org">teo666@linuxmail.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Vincent ha scritto: > > > On 5/13/08, *Teo* <<a href="mailto:teo666@linuxmail.org">teo666@linuxmail.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:teo666@linuxmail.org">teo666@linuxmail.org</a>>> > wrote: > >     Hello everyone, >     I'm searching for a way to add space on / adding one hdd. >     I don't want to change partitions or similar, only add free space of a >     second hdd to /. >     Is that possible?? >     My problem was born from insufficient space for upgrade the distro on a >     remote (monitorless and keyboardless) pc on my lan. >     In alternative I tried to mount free space in /var/cache/apt, but the >     update-manager still say that there's not enough space on / to install.. >     Thanx, >     Teo. > > > I'm not an expert, but I'm afraid it's impossible. What you could do is > set the hard drive to mount to a place where a lot of files are stored. > Perhaps it'd make for a good home directory? If you're going to do that, > be sure to move over the files that are currently in that directory :) > > -- > Vincent > Ok, so I have to copy the content of a folder to a new partition, then mount the new (not empty) partition in the (old) empty folder.. ..sure that space freed by moving could be used for installation..right??</blockquote> <div> Well, let's say you want to move /nonexistent folder to the new hard drive. First, you move everything contained in that folder to /home/yourusername/backup . Then you set the mount point of the new hard drive to /nonexistent and move the files in the backup back to that folder. I wouldn't know how to do that with critical folders though, but surely there's someone on this list who is better at this subject who can explain :) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> But where apt-get, or better update-manager, stores the downloaded files for installation??</blockquote><div> When a package is installed, files get spread out across the place. For example, the file to actually run the program is often located in /usr/bin, while the application's files are stored in /usr/share. The package itself is archived in /var/cache/apt, and so on... That's why this'd be so problematic. Your home folder might be a good idea, but a lot easier when doing a new installation than moving an existing Xubuntu installation. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> And, if I'd mount a partition on that (unknown yet..) folder the program (during upgrade) could detect enough space? I like this kind of challenge..and linux..</blockquote><div> You're not the only one :) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanx, Teo. </blockquote></div> -- Vincent