[nflug] Can I point LIB to a diff place?

[JJ Neff]

I've gotten some sleep and had another go - after much fiddling and editing and moving of files i got updates working again and even got so far as to remove the unneeded Ubuntu resources I was using WINE from and reinstalled the WINE from unstable that works with my apps!  Pinning is the key!

SO I still have my system and everything is mostly upgraded ( some lib issues with gfax but not serious enough to screw around with!)  So it looks like Debian and I will remain attached for the time being ahh sleep is good.

Anyway some suggestionso on creating a new / and then moving existing/ to it.  Obviously I want to only move stuff that is physicall on e dev/had3 to /dev/hda5 or whatever since I don't need to move the /opt /usr etc that is on LVM!  Suggestion are very welcome.  I saw in disk mgr in Gnome that my HDA had some 8GB free space (how do ii see free space in fdisk - I thik I still have sleep deprivation!  )

Anyway you see what I'm trying to do , create a 500MB / on /dev/hda and then move existing /dev/hda3 to it (without pulling anything else that is not on the FS) then remove /dev/hda3

Thanks

JJN

----- Original Message ----
From: JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com>
To: Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:58:05 PM
Subject: [nflug] Can I point LIB to a diff place?

I have never had a space issue since installing this PC with LVM drives.  However I ran out of / space today!  My / was 221MB and no way to increase space as i created root on /dev/hda1

I noted /lib was the largest at 133 and that modules was almsot all of that . I deleted soem unused kernels modules and space reclaimed - now I am wondering if /libs can be on a differnt location with a link to /lib..  It seems that an LVM may need to be mounted via a kernel module or user space prog before the files are accessible so it woudl be trying to use libs to mount /libs!?  Am I assuming correct?  

What are some options now - I ahve plenty of unpartitioned space on /dev/hdb and I reckon I could move lib to a non LVM managed volume... or how about move all of ROOT to an LVM volume - guessing LVM has to be in initram

Oh sheesh.  I hate to admit it but I've been fighting simpe package script problems for an hour and now I hate Debian testing :-(  The broken package -- wait for it --- reportbug!

I foudn the bug on this but it was supposedly closed since a newer version fixes it!  So now i cant upgrade reportbug - cant remove it since it's broken and everything else is waiting for me to resolve this before taking any action!

I hate to say it but Debian is starting to wear me down.  Sometimes I want new softwre or versions without having to put up with Broken as well.  Maybe  a move to Ubuntu, Mepis or the like is in my near future...I can't even believe myself!  Maybe after a few hours sleep this will all seem much better...

JJN

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