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

[Andrew]

Hi,

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 12:17  AM, Chris Harris wrote:

>
>> 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?

At the moment I think it's in excess of 40 megs...

>> 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.

Hmmm, That may work but sounds beyond a beginner like me.
As far as space goes /hda2 and /hda6 could just swap files/mount points 
and all would be fine space wise.

AFAIK the up2date tool can't be changed as to which directory it spools 
the rpms to before installing them. (And that might present another 
issue - where are the 'system' files installed?)

> have you trimmed your log files?

Not yet - there is only 5 megs of them.

I think I should can this machine to the next meeting and someone can 
walk me through it. Any volunteers?

Cheers
Andrew
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