Re: Making big ones out of little ones [was: tlug: Debian install...]

["Ulrike Schmidt" <ulrike@example.com>]

>But that's not really sensible for most setups: few people need 1GB
>files, let alone 1TB files, long bursts of disk I/O at 8x normal
>rates, or submicrosecond backups.  Eg, I'm looking at a 1GB partition
>mounted on /usr, and that's just not going to cut it if Debian keeps
>adding packages at the current rate.  So I can add 33% free space to
>that partition by creating a 500MB partition somewhere (say
>/dev/sdb1), formatting it, mounting it to /tmp/share, copying
>/usr/share recursively to /tmp/share, then adding
>
>/dev/sdb1 /usr/share ext2 defaults 0 2
>
>to /etc/fstab, and doing `diff -rq /usr/share /tmp/share >
>/tmp/just-for-grins' to make sure everything's OK before doing rm -rf
>/usr/share; mkdir /usr/share; umount /tmp/share; mount /usr/share.


Naru hodo, thanks a lot!!! BTW, when I just edited fstab for mounting the
Windows partition under Linux I set the last number to 0, now I am wondering
whether I better set it to 2?

Uli

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