[NBLUG/talk] moving directories

[Mark Street]

/etc is a definite no no.

Let's talk about the directories you MAY do this to safely.  Really this 
should be planned for in advance of partitioning and placing the new 
drive(s).

/usr - is a fairly sizeable portion of the filesystem, can be as much as 
1-2GIG depending on how much software you have installed on the system.
If you want you can even break off /usr/local and or /usr/src/ onto their own 
partition.

/tmp

/var and /var/spool, /var/www, /var/ftp, etc... - if it is a mail, print, 
news, web, ftp server

/home

/boot is sometimes broken off and placed at the beginning of the boot drive.

Depending on the type of system there may be other portions of the filesystem 
you might want to break off the /.  There is a method to the madness though.

Reference a good doc on this subject, this one has been around for quite some 
time.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html

http://www.streetchiro.com/linux
MyIntro to Linux Sys Admin course at SRJC is undergoing this exercise at the 
moment and I have a Wiki setup for all the steps.  It might help you out.

On Saturday 18 October 2003 23:49, icdedpple wrote:
> To save space on a hard drive, I moved the user's home directories to
> /dev/hdb.  I put symbolic links in /home.  I would like to do this with
> more directories since /dev/hda is about 95% fulled up.  Are there any
> directories that I should absolutely not do this with (besides /)?
>
> I would like to make room for the kernel source files.  I didn't include
> them on the original install.

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