Something that may be more work for you but works for me: Back up with Mondo Rescue (LOVE IT). When you restore, you can redefine the partitions and use some of the space on your / partition. Good luck. On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 07:34, Craig White wrote: > my /usr partition is almost completely filled up and it's bothering me. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda9 4569824 1032864 3304824 24% / > /dev/hda1 132207 25532 99849 21% /boot > /dev/hda6 10325748 8586104 1215124 88% /home > /dev/hda7 3099260 3090492 0 100% /usr > /dev/hda5 10325748 900456 8900772 10% /var > none 192624 0 192624 0% /dev/shm > > This machine was originally set up with 7.1, updated to 7.2, then 7.3 > and now 8.0 > > partition is 3 GB and I have removed all unnecessary kernels but I would > love to know if there are any other likely candidates for removal to > create a little extra space in the event that I want to install any new > stuff on this. I have this machine slated for reformat in the next 6 > months but I'd like to have some working space on this in the meantime. > > Craig > -- Edward Simmonds OCP 8i, 9i DBA Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0 8:44am up 29 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.29, 0.26 - Real men don't send html email. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list