[SLUG] Backup

[Martin Webb]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Ooh, my / is very almost full too. Jeez. This may be my last message
>> :-)
> 
> OK, so the last nail in the coffin of this ridiculous partitioning
> strategy, the whole point of which was to ensure that the root
> partition never runs out of space (resulting in a system crash)
> because, for instance, of a runaway process filling up the drive with
> error logs, is that 486M of my 487M partition allocated to / is used.
> Which means I'm just a few characters away from oblivion.
> 
> I've ordered a new HD on which I intend to install the latest Fedora
> with a decent partitioning regime, and then I'll slave the current
> disc and copy my data across.
> 
> Does anyone know, in the meantime, what's favourite for deletion to
> make myself a little breathing space? There's a tmp directory, what if
> I delete something in there?


I tried deleting the /tmp folder once.  The OS wouldn't run.  On that 
basis, I wouldn't advise it.

Martin