Re: Out of room on /usr partition
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:54:03 -0600, Ian T. <itschaotic@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi there.
> I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple
> of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box
> is an old PII with 256 RAM.
>
> I have room elsewhere but searching didn't turn up any recipes for
> linking or otherwise telling the system to use some other more roomy
> areas when it needs to write to /usr/bin.
>
> I could un-install a bunch of stuff but it's the kids box and they seem
> to be comfortable with what's there now.
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> /dev/sda2 = / reiserfs
> /dev/sda3 = /home reiserfs
> /dev/sda5 = /usr reiserfs
> /dev/sda6 = /var reiserfs
> /dev/sda6 - /boot reiserfs
>
> I had trouble with archived software in the /var too but got that moved
> easily.
>
> This is my first successful attempt to have a full time Debian box up
> and I must say it's a pleasure to have so little maintenance!
>
If there's free space on the HD you can try to resize the /usr
partition, else you can try to resize another partition to create free
space, beware, do a backup before touching the HD.
Other, you can create another partition in another disk, copy the
contents of /usr, modify your /etc/fstab to point at the new one and
you are basically done.
You can save 10~20 Mb if you install "localepurge" package, not enough
but better than nothing.
Andrea
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