The Open Source Swiss Army Knife
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The reason for the moving around of directories was that I was continually running out of space, notably in the 2G I had for /usr on my 20G drive.
I had problems with grub for some unknown reason. I had to do the following:
a manual install. the "setup(hd0)" didn't actually install anything on the disk's MBR
During the upgrade, I had a separate problem which was caused by a as the second disk of FEDORA was bad. (Of course this came out only more than half-way through the upgrade.)
I had to rebuild my database completely with rpm --rebuilddb as a result of the crash caused by the failure during upgrading.
Having to mid-upgrade cycle get a bootable linux and reburn a cd was no minor
underaking.
This was done by booting lots of times using "linux rescue" to change /etc/fstab and run the grub utility. This also required revisiting the grub problem.
I moved my partitions around transparently by changing /etc/fstab and using fdisk to change the bootable partition to the one where I moved boot to.
So, I switched /tmp and moved that back onto /
I split /usr into /usr and /usr/local (/usr/local/ was moved onto /dev/hde7 where /tmp previouslyhad been)
What I have now seems ideal for redhat. Yes, they throw lots of junk around.
but, I figure, with the following I have room to install EVERYTHING I install
by hand (meaning, via tarball like prime servers) in /usr/local which will be
left untouched by redhat upgrades.
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| Filesystem | Size | Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
| /dev/hde7 | 5.8G | 2.5G 3.1G 45% / |
| /dev/hde5 | 2.0G | 776M 1.1G 42% /home |
| none | 505M | 0 505M 0% /dev/shm |
| /dev/hde6 | 4.9G | 3.6G 1.1G 77% /usr |
| /dev/hde8 | 5.3G | 1.1G 4.1G 21% /usr/local |
That uses 7.6 GB
that was accumulated over the course of 1 1/2 years of carefree installations
of lots of things from the net
And it leaves 9GB free yet.
This structure would be my recommended structure for a redhat system.
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