[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up, again. 2nd try

[Greg Edwards]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> 
> 
> I like this idea, but is there some compelling reason to move /opt at
> all?  Why not just create the /newroot in the /opt partition and do the
> rest as suggested?
> 
> 
>>Before you try this, someone double check my logic here!!
> 

You need to move /opt since when you change /newroot to / it has to be 
the mounted root dir.  /opt/newroot can't be mounted as / since it's a 
subdir.  Moving root (/) can be done but you have to jump through some 
hoops to get it done.

I haven't looked at the partition sizes suggested in the books lately. 
I use to divide my drives into several partitions but I seem to remember 
always making the / partition at lease 1G.  Now I make a 3-6G / and the 
rest to /server (/home on a user machine) and symlink to subdirs in 
/server.  This way I only backup /etc and /server.

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