Michael, it looks to me like your root partition is absolutely 100% chock full. Am I misunderstanding your request for help? Sounds like you are saying you think you have nothing in that partition - but your 'df -h' command is showing 0 bytes available in /.
Dan On 8/13/07, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using debian 4.0 and mysql-server-5.0 package. > My server will not start because it states that there is not enough > space....Can someone assist? > > rider:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_house-lv_root > 493G 468G 0 100% / > tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 96K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/md0 274M 25M 235M 10% /boot > > > I have a 500gb lvm partition...with hardly anything on it. > > I am new to lvm ....so i will need assistance..i think the package is > failing because it is not reading lvm properly. > > I have removed the mysql package and now i can not re-install it on the > partition...i would appriciate any help offered. > > thanks > mjh >