On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:53:50 +0000 (UTC) "Jonesy MDK10.2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:15:54 -0400, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:49:41 -0400 > > Dan LaBine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Lee Wiggers wrote: > >> > Well I did it...... > >> > > >> > The / directory is maxed out. > >> > > >> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> > /dev/hda1 1.6G 1.6G 868K 100% / > >> > > >> > I have been ignoring all the posts about enlarging / > >> > 'cause it couldn't happen to me. > >> > > >> > Now hda is only the / directory. Can I boot in g4l, > >> > ghost the drive and go home? > >> > > >> > TIA > >> > > >> > Lee > >> > >> Lee, whichever way you want, get that hard drive restarted and clean out > >> your /tmp folder and any others that you can. Then you can use diskdrake > >> to move things like /var, /tmp and /usr to other partitions. As soon as > >> you try to name new partitions using those names, diskdrake will offer > >> to transfer the data from the old one to the new one. > >> > > Should have shown the whole pic. > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda1 1.6G 1.6G 848K 100% / > > /dev/hdb7 55G 26G 29G 48% /Other > > /dev/hdb6 30G 9.3G 21G 32% /home > > /dev/hdc1 140G 372K 140G 1% /music > > /dev/hdc5 140G 93G 48G 67% /musicback > > none 379M 24K 379M 1% /tmp > > /dev/hdb5 20G 3.1G 17G 16% /usr > > /dev/hdb1 49G 213M 49G 1% /var > > > > > > Appears I can ghost dev/hda1, replace it with the new > > drive and go to lunch? > > > > home, user, and var are already happily elsewhere. (and > > the box is functional at this point.) > > You haven't - perhaps - dumped 'stuff' into 'things' under /mnt when > those 'things' were *not* mounted - have you? > > I did that once. I have 2 HD's, and the "extra" space on each was set > to /mnt/spare_a/ and /mnt/spare_b/ -- but, not mounted automatically. > On one occasion I DL'd a couple of ISO's into my 'large' spare_b > partition. But, since this bone-head had not mounted it at the time, it > was all nicely saved for me in the / partition. It took me a while to > notice that I had stepped on my own dick. > > Just for ref: > |$ df > |Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > |/dev/hda6 989M 128M 812M 14% / <<============== > |/dev/hda5 16M 8.2M 6.3M 57% /boot > |/dev/hdb5 2.0G 1.8G 146M 53% /home > |/dev/hda1 4.0G 2.9G 1.2G 71% /mnt/windows > |/dev/hda8 130M 18M 105M 15% /tmp > |/dev/hda10 3.9G 2.3G 1.4G 63% /usr > |/dev/hda9 989M 336M 603M 36% /var > > Your / seems HUGE, there. > > HTH > Jonesy > -- > Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux > 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 I am sure that I did a similar stupid using musicback before mounting musicback, but I can't see it with the partition mounted? Dumb question: How do I umount the partition? Lee ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
