too small linux partition?

[Dr. Jones]

Stayler:

I accomplished the goal of moving my /home directory to /dev/hda7. A reboot
and subsequent writes to subdirectories in /home demonstrate that the files
are winding up on /dev/hda7. Here's my dilemma now: Since my /home directory
made the transition over to /dev/hda7, how do I now purge /home on
/dev/hda1?

'mout' shows /home mounted on /dev/hda7, and reports that it is busy if I
attempt to 'umount' this point. I want to umount it so that I can then go in
and remove /dev/hda1/home and thus clear the space it now occupies.

Any suggestions?

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "stayler" <stayler at xmtservices.net>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: too small linux partition?


> On 09 Feb 2003 22:58:02 -0700, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote:
>
> >I am trying to find some way to either 1) expand the size of my linux
> >partition dynamically, without destroying the data it contains, or 2)
> >move some of my folders to an alternate partition on my system, where I
> >have room, by creatively using mount and /etc/fstab entries, to point my
> >system to alternate locations.
>
> In the past I have added partitons that I mounted in places like /usr
> and /opt and /home.  That usually cleared alot of space.  Its a simple
> way to go for now.  Just mount the new partition for say /usr under say
> /extra.  mv /usr/* /extra.  umount /extra and mount the new partition
> as /usr.  Really quite simple...
>
> The other option is to get a bigger HD and just move everything
> over....
>
> Stayler
>
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