How to increase space in a partition

[SkyHigh]

Hi

I am running Solaris 8.0 on an intel box, I have a 30 gig harddrive but there isn't much space left in my "/" partition and as /usr/local is in this partition most new installations go into this partition by default, since I have more than enough space in my /export partition, how can I add some space to /usr/local from /export by creating a link, I am very new in Unix environment, your help would be much appreciated
thanks
Brenda Sky

 

[siswjh]

If you just have the one disk and are not using any volume control software. I would say back it up, boot into single user mode partition you disk again and restore from backup.

 

[shodler]

Another possibility would be to create a directory under /export (like /export/local/bin), move everything from /usr/local/bin into this directory, and then link /usr/local/bin to /export/local/bin:


cd /usr/local

rmdir bin (Once you have everything moved from /usr/local/bin)

ln -s /export/local/bin bin

This will only help if /usr/local/bin is using a lot of /'s disk space.