[wellylug] Where's my disk space gone revisited...

[Chris Harris]

Hi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Andrew Presant

> I *think* I follow what you're doing, but I problem is I need to increase
> the size of /var at the expense of /home and/or /usr
>
>  Filesystem       1K-blocks      Used    Available  Use%   Mounted on
>  /dev/hda3          4648896     34632    4378112     1%    /home
>  /dev/hda2         12697360   4535656    7516696    38%    /usr
>  /dev/hda6          1027768    850556     125004    88%    /var
>
> Would your suggestion do this? I can't see it working as you seem to be
> making a new partition, or am I missing something?

the idea is you make a file on /home or /usr and use it as a new 'partition'
mounted where you need the space

>
> The only effect the current situation is having is I can't update
> the system

how much space does the update require?

> due to a lack of space on /var (for Red Hat up-to-date). The machine is a
> just a web-server.
>
> > you might want to substitute /usr and /var/log/apache/ or where
> your http
> > logs are for my examples
>
> Making a guess I need to substitute /usr and /var/spool/up2date for your

sounds about right but I don't know redhat.

> examples... And remove the old /var/spool/up2date? Correct?

or move the content into the new pseudo volume via /home

another trick is to NFS or SMBFS mount some spare space where you need it.

or you could copy the content of /var into /home and vice a versa and edit
fstab to swap the two entrys and reboot.

have you trimmed your log files?


C