On Thursday 23 August 2018 23:24:37 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu August 23 2018 19:52:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > And after about 3 more installs, I got it to work, but in my > > calculations for partition size, I forgot theres around 80 GB in > > /var, my web pages etc, which was going to be in the / partition, so > > 40Gb was soon filled up in copying it across. But lots of empty > > space left in home, so I fired up gparted to shrink the top of home > > and make room for a new /opt partition. But gparted refuses to do > > that resize/move. So it looks like another whole new install > > tomorrow, except tomorrow will be after a new quick change drive > > cage arrives > > Some possibilities you could consider are (1) fewer partitions and (2) > LVM. > LVM was beta at best the last time I tried it back in the fog of time when I had a little color left in my beard, and wound up losing the system. Is it trustable today? Otherwise I'll probably just set it up as 2Gb for /boot, 500 Gb for /home (thats 4x the 127G its using now and the rest as /, which has actually worked pretty good for wheezy. Even that may be too complex, so /boot, 16G of /swap and the rest as / would also work. I had thought saveing /home separately might be a good idea and will likely do that now that I've surveyed the system with du -h. I'm about to take a 1T out, and put a 2T in for amanda at the same time, which would put a 1T available for /opt or even /home, but that drive has 75,000 spinning hours on it now. Its apparently found an immortality pill, it had 25 re-allocated sectors before I updated its firmware at about 1000 hours, still does! As vtapes for amanda, its stayed around 85% used for years, with 25 to 60 GB rewritten every night. Its also backing up my cnc machines too, 5 total. Thinking out loud... > --Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>