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skiingprep
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:02 pm Post subject: change location of emerges? |
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Hello,
Here is my df output:
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Filesystem Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 832332 150840 85% /
/dev/hda1 1746200 1624668 2% /hda1
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As you can see I've run out of spcae on my main partition.. but i really want to emerge some applications like xfree.. so its there a way i could change my emerge (and possibly a new bin dir..?) to this /hda1 mount?
thanks, help is much apreciated.
-brian
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duff
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| /etc/make.conf wrote: | | Code: | # PORTAGE_TMPDIR is the location portage will use for compilations and
# temporary storage of data. This can get VERY large depending upon
# the application being installed.
#PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp |
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Also, you may want to try cleaning out /usr/portage/distfiles. I've had that folder well over a GB before. |
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dice
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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you could edit your /etc/make.conf and set ROOT=/hda1
You'd also have to do things like set your PATH to include /hda1/bin:/hda1/sbin and all kinds of other crap.... plus I think config things will get stored in /hda1/etc from then on....
It'll be a mess. |
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StuBear
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Location: Melbourne,AUSTRALIA
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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Most other apps in Gentoo dont go /bin, but rather on the /usr/bin/.
You don't mention if you already have an existing /usr partition or not, so I'm going to assume that you don't.
Looking at the size of hda1, I would suggest that you copy across your existing /usr to the new partitiion and mount it at boot time.
Do do this | Code: | mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/usrtemp
cp -ax /usr/* /mnt/usrtemp
umount /mnt/usrtemp
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Then add a new entry to your /etc/fstab to mount the new /usr/partition on boot.
To try it out mount /dev/hda1 /usr, all your programs should still work.
After you are happy that everything works then you can change to single user mode (rc single) or boot from the livecd or boot disk, unmount /usr (this is VERY important) and then delete everything under /usr on hda4, this should free up some space on hda4 as well as giving you freedom to grow.
If you do have a /usr partiton already, then if it is smaller than hda1, then you can copy the data across to the bigger partition and then use your old /usr as a new partition (/home or /var are good choices)
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skiingprep
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the replies.
I have found another hot-swapple harddrive so I no longer need my hard drive partitioned..
is there anyway I can somehow merge hda1(unalocated spcae) and hda4(gentoo install) into just hda4 without loosing my gentoo install?
(im looking for alternatives to partition magic as i have already tried the rescue disks as to no avail...)
thanks
-brian |
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pjp
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