Diskspace problem

Hi,

I have a problem. It's quite easily explained:

/dev/hdc3              5119972   2181272   2938700  43% /
/dev/hda4              7702924   2414140   5288784  32% /usr
/dev/hdc1                16421     15819       602  97% /boot
/dev/hda2              2819312   2720872     98440  97% /home
/dev/hda3              9221308   8147616   1073692  89% /mnt/winxp
/dev/hdc4              2101088   1905344    195744  91% /mnt/xchange
/dev/hdc2             12287644  11777212    510432  96% /usr/local

My /usr/local/ is always about full and I need more space there. And I have about 8 Gigs free on / and /usr. I actually don't have any idea what to do besides installing everything new. All the filesystems are reiserfs.

I'd be very happy about good ideas.

My best regards,
Axel
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You can probably shrink / and /usr using resize_reiserfs (on Debian, this is part of the resierfsprogs package; I'm not sure about other distributions. After that, use fdisk or cfdisk to shrink hdc3 and hda4 (there are brief instructions in the resize_reiserfs manpage). Ideally, you would want to tack this space onto hdc2, but I can't see any way of doing that, so the best thing is probably to make another partition or two in the space, copy a load of files from /usr/local into that, and then mount on e.g. /usr/local/bin.

Resizing the root filesystem is likely to cause problems; you may need to use a boot disk. There should be one included with your distribution.

DISCLAIMER: I have made no attempt at all to test this, and if it goes wrong, your / and /usr will be trashed beyond hope of recovery. Take full and careful backups.

Steven Smith,
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