[kde-linux] rinning out of space on root partition

[noc at aphofis.com]

Thanks for the heads up re running from distro disk - great idea.

I have created a RAID0 with home directory and lost NO data - I will let
you know how I go if you like

regards

Scott


On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:50 +1300, Andrew Walbran wrote:

> On Monday 23 October 2006 9:27 am, noc at aphofis.com wrote:
> > I am running out of space on one systems root partition. I am running
> > KDE desktop from SUSE 10.1 Distro.
> >
> > I have created a partition with the file system ID 0xFD Linux RAID and
> > altered the root partition to the same file type in preparation for
> > creating a RAID 0
> >
> > I understand that I will have to umount the / partition before I create
> > the RAID 0 and set the RAID 0 to a mount point of /
> >
> > My concern is that if I umount / partition that the partition app will
> > no longer work - or will it happily reside in RAM whilst I make the
> > changes.
> >
> > I am quite confident in altering partitions and creating RAID's and
> > resizing but have never had to alter the / partition
> >
> > I am petrified I am going to loose the whole partition.
> >
> > Can anyone for-see any problems with the above.
> You probably won't be able to unmount the root partition. Certainly, 
> unmounting it would make your system unusable. You should make your partition 
> changes while running from a live CD.
> 
> Also, won't creating a RAID 0 destroy the existing data on the root partition? 
> You should copy it somewhere else first, and then copy it back onto the new 
> partition.
> 
> Another possibility is to move e.g. /home to a different partition than the 
> root filesystem.
> 
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