[CVALE] Out of disk space...Up a creek with no paddle?

[Landon Blake]

Thanks Ian. I'll leave the partition for now. Maybe I can make it until
I need to upgrade to the next testing version of Debian.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Ian Sterling
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:56 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Out of disk space...Up a creek with no paddle?

> > Be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Well, back up first.  Then, be afraid.
Be
> > very afraid.
> Well put. Very well put. Truer words have never been spoken. :-)

Exactly.  PartEd is scary stuff.  It's best to use if you want to
extend the partition and you don't have any existing stuff on the
partition behind it.

What I've done in the past when I wanted to increase the size of any
of my partitions is to create new partitions on a seperate disk and
either DD, cpio, or rsync the information over. Mostly what I've moved
have been ~/, /boot, and once I did /usr (that was freaky at first,
but did work).

I was a firm believer of DD until somebody showed me a good use of
CPIO.  Then I was a firm believer of CPIO until somebody showed me the
joys of RSYNC.  They all have their benefits and drawbacks, so make
sure to peruse the man pages. :-)

--Ian...

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