On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:51:55PM -0400, Salman Haq wrote: > > Hi, > > When trying to compile some code, I got the following error: > > cpp0: /tmp/ccFJJwQN.ii: No space left on device > > I then realized that /tmp is mounted on my root partition, which was > full: > > #df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 463M 440M 1.0k 100% / > /dev/hda5 37G 2.5G 32G 8% /usr > > # df -ih > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 120k 20k 100k 17% / > /dev/hda5 4.7M 149k 4.5M 4% /usr > > Now, I realize that this a very bad partition scheme but I'm just a > newbie. When I was installing debian a few months ago, I didn't intend to > have this scheme. I wanted root to be mounted as '/' and everything else > under '/usr' since thats the bigger partition. Unfortunately, most of > everything is mounted under '/'. I wonder where I went wrong... > > Can I change this situation, without re-formatting/re-partitioning? Or, > atleast for now, which files can I safely delete to free-up some space? I recommend you use one huge / partition. This way you won't run into this type of problem. You can delete logs in /var/log to get some free space, then I suggest you install parted which will allow you to change the size of your partitions. I suggest you shrink your /usr partition down to 5-10 gigs (I doubt you will install more software than this) and increase / to use up the extra space. The /usr partition is usually used to install software. The / partition holds everything that doesn't have its own partition, like /home, /var, /etc, etc. Bijan
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