Install on root with limited space

[Adam Getchell <acgetchell ucdavis edu>]

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I wanted to upgrade my existing system. However, my partition scheme has only
500 MB on root, and upgrade seems to want 1.7GB(!). Any suggestions on
increasing the size of root?

Here's my partition structure:

/dev/hda7        /        500M
/dev/hda1        /boot      16M
/dev/hda10       /home   3423M
/dev/hda9        /usr     3423M
/dev/hda8        /var       500M
/dev/hda5        swap
/dev/hda6        swap

Home is 50% used, /usr is 40% used, root is 93%.

E.G., swipe a 2GB drive somewhere and extend root onto it ---
copy root and home into usr, merge / and /home, copy root and /usr into the new
directory, remount /usr as /home ---
Just bite the bullet and reinstall everything but keeping /home ---

Suggestions are welcome!

P.S. I already checked out the install-list, no luck there so far.

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*	Adam Getchell
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