HunkirDowne
August 17th, 2008, 02:04 PM
I am trying to remember(?)/figure out how to spread a directory (folder) across two partitions. I believe I did this several years ago with RedHat and if so it was terribly easy--seemingly so trivial I didn't take notes.
Was I dreaming?
Specifics:
I have four operating systems on one computer. WinXP, and three different instances of Ubuntu (feisty, feisty-UCE, hardy). I want to blow away feisty after testing and configuring hardy enough to use it more than all the others combined. Once I do that, I will reclaim some precious space on my laptop. I'd like to reassign the space mostly to my /home directory but also to give myself a little more breathing room for /boot.
Here are my partitions:
$ sudo fdisk -ul
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x82bd82bd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 31149260 15574599 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 31455270 117210239 42877485 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 31150035 31326749 88357+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 31326750 31455269 64260 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 31455333 52468289 10506478+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 52468353 62974799 5253223+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 62974863 71360729 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 71360793 113017274 20828241 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 113017338 117210239 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
These are my current hardy partition assignments:
~$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/hunkirdowne/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=hunkirdowne)
/dev/sda5=/ for feisty-UCE so it stays.
/dev/sda6=/ for feisty (std) so it goes.
After looking at my notes, it would appear that sda6 is the only one that will be freed up.
Here's my current disk-space for mounted partitions (1=xp, 9=swap):
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 4159844 2867492 1082708 73% /
varrun 257508 112 257396 1% /var/run
varlock 257508 0 257508 0% /var/lock
udev 257508 96 257412 1% /dev
devshm 257508 12 257496 1% /dev/shm
lrm 257508 39760 217748 16% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4 60217 46813 10191 83% /boot
/dev/sda8 20827584 16863468 3964116 81% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 4159844 2867492 1082708 73% /home/hunkirdowne/.gvfs
/dev/sda3 85549 19739 61393 25% /media/sda3
/dev/sda5 10506104 9409188 1096916 90% /media/sda5
/dev/sda6 5253016 3727512 1525504 71% /media/sda6
Was I dreaming?
Specifics:
I have four operating systems on one computer. WinXP, and three different instances of Ubuntu (feisty, feisty-UCE, hardy). I want to blow away feisty after testing and configuring hardy enough to use it more than all the others combined. Once I do that, I will reclaim some precious space on my laptop. I'd like to reassign the space mostly to my /home directory but also to give myself a little more breathing room for /boot.
Here are my partitions:
$ sudo fdisk -ul
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x82bd82bd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 31149260 15574599 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 31455270 117210239 42877485 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 31150035 31326749 88357+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 31326750 31455269 64260 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 31455333 52468289 10506478+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 52468353 62974799 5253223+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 62974863 71360729 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 71360793 113017274 20828241 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 113017338 117210239 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
These are my current hardy partition assignments:
~$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/hunkirdowne/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=hunkirdowne)
/dev/sda5=/ for feisty-UCE so it stays.
/dev/sda6=/ for feisty (std) so it goes.
After looking at my notes, it would appear that sda6 is the only one that will be freed up.
Here's my current disk-space for mounted partitions (1=xp, 9=swap):
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 4159844 2867492 1082708 73% /
varrun 257508 112 257396 1% /var/run
varlock 257508 0 257508 0% /var/lock
udev 257508 96 257412 1% /dev
devshm 257508 12 257496 1% /dev/shm
lrm 257508 39760 217748 16% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4 60217 46813 10191 83% /boot
/dev/sda8 20827584 16863468 3964116 81% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 4159844 2867492 1082708 73% /home/hunkirdowne/.gvfs
/dev/sda3 85549 19739 61393 25% /media/sda3
/dev/sda5 10506104 9409188 1096916 90% /media/sda5
/dev/sda6 5253016 3727512 1525504 71% /media/sda6