Re: out of space on /

"Steven W. Orr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Organization SysLang Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, jdow wrote:

=>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.

Joan, very motherly :-)
There are a couple of problems here. 

1. /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb1 are both mounted as root. Not kosher. Never 
heard of mounting the same partition twice. I'm scared. Also, look at 
hdb4. That one is mounted *3* times! Certainly, this machine is a 
candidate for a data-wipe and a reload.

2. "John" is flying on a wrong premise. He thinks that he can remount a
directory on a different partition. Bzzzt. You can mount the partition on
a different directory. But if you do, the content of the partition is
unchanged.


=>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...
=>
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