system disks

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Malloy wrote:
>Does anyone have a suggestion for a way to make the system think
>there is more space (I do have free space on other partitions)?
>
>I know there is a way mount another file system and do a link.
>I just don't know the exact formula to get this to work.

Make free partition a linux partition with fdisk, then

mount /new/partition/ /mount/point/
(probably want to add /etc/fstab entry)

mv /old/directory /mount/point/
ln -s /mount/point/ /old/directory/

man mount, man ln for details

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