Re: No space left on device

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

>>>>> "BS" == Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:

    BS> 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?
    
    You can run "apt-get clean" to delete the apt cache.

    You could probably move some things around, too -- move /home to
    /usr/home, and symlink it to /home.

    Finally, you could use GNU parted to rearrange the partitions.

--Joe

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