Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Mick]

On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a
> different proposal.
>
> If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the
> new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugin, then
> grow the filesystem to occupy the new space.
>
> For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical
> volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an
> online-resizable filesystem.

In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a LiveCD 
(e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the good ol' 
primary & logical partitions?

Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration files on 
the borked OS?

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Regards,
Mick