Partition Juggling
In an effort to free up some space on my root partition I've come up with a conundrum.
I created a fresh new partition for /home and then copied the contents to the new partition. Having used root to do the copying, I changed the permissions for each home directory back to what they should be. Fine so far. I used YaST to change the partition table so that the new partition mounted at /home. Rebooted, logged in as a user. Still fine, everything works great, partitions where expected. Now the problem - the root partition is just as full, so I am assuming that because I didn't delete the old /home contents that it's still there but not showing because the new partition is mounted in it's place. And the question - how do I go about safely deleting the contents of the old /home directory? Can I just go into the "rescue system" from booting up, mount the root partition (hda5 in my case), and delete the old /home contents before rebooting into the full system? Advice much appreciated. |
Sorted - sorry couldn't wait I'm afraid.
Booted up from 9.2 CD, then into Rescue System. Checked mounts and seeing no disk partitions, I mounted hda5. CDed into /home and deleted the contents. Rebooted back into main system - all fine and I've got my disk space back. Question - Is there a way to find "lost" files without going into the barebones Rescue System? |
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