Freeing up space from root

Question

currently im low in space in my root drive, but i have loads of space in /home and /home1.
if i edit the pacman.conf and make it so that
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
is changed from  to  this
RootDir     = /home1
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
what else would i need to do to move the current libs in /var/lib and /var/cache to get them to my /home1 location.
thanks

Answer 1

@Fixxer
du -BM /var/log/journal
1M /var/log/journal
su -c "du -aBM /var/log"
Password:
1M /var/log/user.log.1
1M /var/log/errors.log.3
1M /var/log/journal
1M /var/log/syslog.log.1
1M /var/log/pacman.log
1M /var/log/daemon.log.4
1M /var/log/crond.log.1
1M /var/log/crond.log.2
1M /var/log/user.log.2
1M /var/log/cups
1M /var/log/daemon.log.1
1M /var/log/wtmp
1M /var/log/dmesg.log
1M /var/log/auth.log.4
1M /var/log/kernel.log.3
1M /var/log/auth.log.1
1M /var/log/auth.log.3
2M /var/log/kernel.log.2
1M /var/log/btmp
0M /var/log/errors.log
1M /var/log/messages.log.4
1M /var/log/crond.log
2M /var/log/everything.log.2
1M /var/log/messages.log.2
0M /var/log/user.log
1M /var/log/daemon.log.2
1M /var/log/user.log.4
1M /var/log/errors.log.2
1M /var/log/crond.log.4
1M /var/log/kernel.log.4
1M /var/log/kernel.log.1
1M /var/log/everything.log.3
1M /var/log/syslog.log.3
1M /var/log/Xorg.0.log
1M /var/log/syslog.log
1M /var/log/user.log.3
1M /var/log/old
1M /var/log/errors.log.1
0M /var/log/kernel.log
1M /var/log/auth.log.2
1M /var/log/faillog
1M /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
1M /var/log/everything.log.4
1M /var/log/speech-dispatcher
1M /var/log/boot
1M /var/log/crond.log.3
1M /var/log/syslog.log.4
1M /var/log/ConsoleKit
1M /var/log/everything.log.1
1M /var/log/daemon.log.3
1M /var/log/wtmp.1
1M /var/log/lastlog
1M /var/log/errors.log.4
1M /var/log/messages.log.1
1M /var/log/syslog.log.2
1M /var/log/btmp.1
1M /var/log/everything.log
1M /var/log/messages.log
0M /var/log/daemon.log
1M /var/log/auth.log
1M /var/log/messages.log.3
9M /var/log
yes i did the pacman -Scc
the
pacman -Qqtd
shows a few packages, maybe i can delete some of these, there is nothing big.
@cfr
>Do you mean that you want to leave existing packages where they are
>(under /usr/lib etc.) but have new ones installed to
> /home1 (/home1/usr/lib etc.)? I don't think you can do that without
>breaking your system. How, for example, would pacman upgrade your existing packages
>if it is using /home1 as /?
YES that is what i would like ideally.
i did read up on cd live boot with gparted, so might have to resort to that.
as you say it would mean resising the partition.
@Trilby
yes altera design suite is 6.5 G, not sure where all the files are installed
but if its / then i'm going to be short.
Last edited by ewaller (2013-01-20 20:20:05)