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2010-05-19
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don't want to be pain in the *** here, but ever heard of command called "mv" ? 
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2010-05-19
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mv will not work most of the times due to permissions.
cp and rm is safer.
cp and rm is safer.
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2010-06-19
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Why can't we just expand this file system at the expence of another? I remember being able to do this with AIX a long time ago.
However the /home/ partition is has an EXT3 filesystem. This filesystem is used in linux and has many advantages over FAT, such as permissions etc.. MyDocs on the other hand uses a FAT partition, which makes it good for compatibility but some games might not work when moved because of missing permissions and whatnot. But /home/ and MyDocs are just partitions of the same chip (32GB Flash Memory), so speed will remain the same in theory. Rootfs is built on a much faster chip, so moving from rootfs speed might take a hit.
First of all install an app called storage-usage. If the app gives you an error (requires QT 4.6) disable 'extras-devel', update the catalogues and try re-downloading it from 'extras'. It will install successfully then.
Going into the app you will see representations of the amount of space you have in various partitions. Going into each parition gives you more details of what is taking up space. Here are some screenshots of my opt partition.
This is during the scanning process:
This is when the scanning is finished:
By navigating (using arrow keys) you can know what uses more space than others:
You can do this for rootfs by pressing on the rootfs partition. Using xterm you can then move things as you wish.
Some useful commands for xterm:
This is a symlink. It puts a file pointing to [DIR1] in the [DIR2] path.
Here are some scripts I did to move certain games. I did not try to move apps. Some of these scripts are not perfect, What I mean is they sometimes instead of moving 'maps' as a directory move everything inside maps. What you do in this case you determine what was not moved well and create a directory called maps and put everything inside it. Make sure you don't move other important directories you might have copied. Feel free to fix my code if there is something wrong. I tested all these apps and they all work.
Beneath a Steel Sky
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Last edited by pantera1989; 2010-06-19 at 09:58.