Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement

[Mick]

On Friday 07 Oct 2011 08:25:36 Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:

> > On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like
> > %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a
> > volume wherever you like.
> >
> > I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine
> > dual-booted between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume
> > was mounted at D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my
> > .libpurple on both boots at a directory on that volume.
>
> Hmmmm, this is interesting.  My brother has filled up his hard drive and
> I been planning on reinstalling to a larger drive.  Maybe I need to
> check into this more.  He uses XP and I really hate to install windoze.
> Since he had to spend $8,000.00 on a new mower, his new rig went to
> second place in the budget.  This could be the place for the next couple
> years.  Uhh, he mows grass for a living.  Anyway, putting Documents on
> its own drive would save me some grief.

You will get some space back if you move all the backup files created with 
MSWindows updates out of C:\ (but not the index which is needed to be able to 
update it properly).  If space is running out fast, then you may have a 
corrupt page file.  Delete it and move it to another drive/partition.

Finally, clear all cruft in /temp directory (somewhere under local settings) 
for each user.

If you have another drive, move all his data out of C:\  then defrag and 
shrink the partition a bit, create new partition(s) and install Linux!  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick