SOLVED Re: /var still counts /var/cache
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:23:32PM -0800, Charlie Reiman wrote:
> It probably does. Unmount /var/cache, then cd /var/cache. You'll find all
> your old stuff is probably still there. You can them probably do:
>
> cd /var
> mv cache cache.old
> mkdir cache
> mount /var/cache
Yup. But you I also had to delete the cache.old directory. I'd tarred all
of /var before I started so I wasn't too worried about things going
missing.
debian:/var# rm -Rf cache.old
debian:/var# umount /var/cache
debian:/var# cd /var/cache/
debian:/var/cache# ll
total 2.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 ..
debian:/var/cache# mount /var/cache
debian:/var/cache# ll
total 2.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 ..
debian:/var/cache# cd
debian:~# cd /var/cache
debian:/var/cache# ll
total 45K
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 analog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 apache
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:46 apt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 debconf
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 fonts
drwx------ 2 root root 16K Jan 27 14:42 lost+found
drwxr-sr-x 15 man root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 man
debian:/var/cache# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 474474 28446 421529 7% /
/dev/hda3 4806936 2120004 2442744 47% /home
/dev/hda5 2403420 1359416 921912 60% /usr
/dev/hda6 474443 108362 341584 25% /var
/dev/hda7 2885780 46500 2692692 2% /usr/local
/dev/hda9 46636 45 44183 1% /tmp
/dev/hda10 2403344 340500 1940752 15% /var/cache
/var is now down to 25% and I can pick up mail again!
> This will mount the new /var/cache without destroying the old one. If
> everything works to your satisfaction: rm -rf /var/cache.old. That should
> free up the space.
Thank you thank you thank you. :)
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Emma Jane Hogbin
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