Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Joris Huizer wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>
> > Leonard Chatagnier said:
> >
> > > tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No 
> > > space left on device
> > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> >
> >
> > > I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown"
> > > ChatagnierL-Home:~#  df
> > > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda2               140000    114049     18722  86% /
> >
> >
> >
> > Phil said:
> >
> > > > Your / partition is where /lib lives, and you've only got ~18MB. I'd 
> > > > say
> > > > your modules directory should take up more than that. 30MB+. Prolly not
> > > > enough space.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hey Phil, thanks, that explains it.  Now how to get more space on /?  
> > I could resize partitions with cfdisk and probably mess things up.  
> > You have a more newbie(noobie) frendly way of doing this?  Any thought 
> > or suggestions
> > will be much appreciated.  BTW, did you see any problem with the df 
> > output for tmpfs as I wasn't sure if it was
> > saying 0% usage or 0% free space.  Also, for my clarification and 
> > understanding, the sarge modules were already
> > installed from previous testing upgrades, so, why couldn't it just be 
> > written over with the new stable sarge or is the new upgrade that much 
> > larger..???  Appreciate any info on this.
> > Thanks,
> > leonard
>
> I find parted is not so hard -- after launching it, type 'help' and you 
> get an overview of the available options;
> Then, for example, 'help resize' will give you some information on resizing
>
> The way is now simple: make a large partition smaller (maybe /var or 
> /usr or /home) and make / bigger
>
> 'print' is helpfull to see the current state of the disc partitions
>
> I think you should not have partitions mounted which are to be resized 
> -- anyone know how to do the resizing of / ?
>
> if resizing / really cannot be done, maybe create a new /lib partition 
> instead
>
> HTH,
>
> Joris

The more "classic" solution to this would be to get another available 
partition by what ever means (adding another disk, parted...) and the 
create a mount point in your fstab table for /lib.

The process would go something like this, assuming that the new 
partition is /dev/hda6 and / is /dev/hda2

mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
cp -r /lib/* /mnt  (or a dozen other methods will do, rsync -a for example)
edit /etc/fstab to include a mount point for this
/dev/hda6       /lib           ext3    defaults        0       2

remount all your partitions.
At this point you still have all the files in /lib of /dev/hda2 but you 
need to make sure you got it right before you remove them.
if everything works correctly you can mount --bind the / partition to 
another mount point (/mnt) and the remove the directory /mnt/lib/

You should now have all your libs on /dev/hda6 and lots of space on your 
/ partition.

NOTE: not tested and I haven't had any coffee yet...  So do your 
research before you let your fingers do the walking.