Lee Wiggers wrote:After doing a 'find / -mount -size +500000k -print' I found a /backup directory that contained the Mandrake 9.2 3-disk set. I moved them to my home partition and now all seems well. With the freely allocated space available, I am now able to start the X server.
I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X (then KDE).On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Derek Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to
start back>up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot
up say something to>the effect of (sorry not in front of the
machine now):>
No room on / [0] expecting [20000]
I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded
anything>new.
Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my
understanding),>but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory,
I remembered that I>still have a couple of .iso images taking up
some space (this is a 25GB>drive). So just out of curiosity I
deleted them freeing up a couple of>gigs. But when I restarted
the machine I got the same message about>root (/) being full then
taking me to the CLI login after some failed>attempts to start X.
Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why
this>happened.
Thanks.
If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help.
There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted.
It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in
/var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming
huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate'
job run daily to compress and delete old logs.
It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g.
tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp
will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files.
Sir Robin
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For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up.
I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy.
Lee
I understand from some research that parted can be used for this, but was unsure of the command(s) to essentially give 2G to the / partition.
Would anyone be able to help?
Thanks a lot.
Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions!
Yippee!
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