Re: out of space on /

Having enfolded this problem in a loving embrace a couple times I do have
some suggestions.

init 1
mkdir /t
mount /dev/hdb1 /t
mkdir /t/var
cp -a /var/* /t/var
mv /var /vtemp
ln -s /t/var /var
rm -rf vtemp
e2label /dev/hdb1 /var
<editor command of choice> /etc/fstab
<add line:>LABEL=/var /var  ext3    defaults        1 2
<exit>
init 3

And one hopes the system comes up playing with plenty of room on / and
/var on /dev/hdb1. You can also move /usr and /home over if they are
overly large. Although /var may be the one that keeps growing with log
files and whatnot.

{^_^}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John" <[email protected]>

> Your right...   I meant /...   this is the root partition correct?
> 
> Look what df -H gives me after I tried to mount / onto a new partition
> with lots of free space:
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             1.6G  1.6G     0 100% /
> /dev/hda1              50M  6.2M   41M  13% /boot
> none                  263M     0  262M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb2             2.9G   34M  2.7G   2% /oracle
> /dev/hdb4             6.6G  3.6G  2.6G  58% /backup
> /dev/hdb4             6.6G  3.6G  2.6G  58% /pub
> /dev/hdb3             2.9G   34M  2.7G   2% /oradata
> /dev/hdb4             6.6G  3.6G  2.6G  58% /tmp
> /dev/cdrom            678M  678M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom
> /dev/hdb1             1.6G  1.6G     0 100% /
> 
> If deleting files now but I can say right now that /dev/hdb1 is empty..
> What is going on here?
> 
> Is increasing the / partition the only way to create space for more
> packages?
> 
> I think I may have screwed something up...