[NTLUG:Discuss] D.A.question about repartitioning on the fly

[Greg Edwards]

Fred wrote:
> Suse (and others) like to create 2 partitions during install: / and
> /home. No /usr, no /etc. Some time ago (year or two) I installed Suse
> 9.1 on my daughter's puter and happened to notice recently that / is
> at 94% AND they want OpenOffice which, at 120MB or so installed,
> ain't happening until the disk gets repartitioned. /home has about 2
> 1/2 gigs of space.
> 

> 
> Thanks,
> Fred

IMHO, the simplest solution would be to create a dir under /home say 
/home/opt2 and install it there.  Add /home/opt2 to the default search 
path in /etc/profile.

Linux does not care where the programs are located, just that it knows 
where to look for them.  Next time you upgrade you can move it and redo 
your partitions.

JMO

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Greg Edwards
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