[vox-tech] What I Did Tonight

[Mark K. Kim]

Use a boot CD.  For me, that means running the Mandrake installation CD
with the rescue option.  But that's just me.

You *might* be able to boot with u2's partition as the root partition (I
think you pass "root=3D/dev/<blah>" to the kernel at boot).  I can see the
kernel complaining, but it might work.

Either way, copy the files back to the original root partition and reboot.

-Mark

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> Tonight, in a desperate bid to free up some space on my hard drive, I wen=
t
> ahead and created a new directory on my huge unused /u2 partition called
> bin.  Then I copied everything from /bin to /u2/bin.  Then I deleted /bin
> and created a symbolic link from /bin -> /u2/bin.
>
> Then I rebooted.
>
> Shit.
>
> This probably won't be too hard to recover from.  But if anyone else has
> any advice on how to free up hard drive space that doesn't involve tricks
> that will make my computer forget how to start up, I'm all ears... or
> eyes... or something.  Right now, doing df -h reveals that / is at 100%
> capacity.
>
>
>
> Sliante,
> Richard S. Crawford
>
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