Re: / full?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:01 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Chris Parker wrote:
> > I have filled up the / partition.  a copy of fstab is below:
> >
> > $/ df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1             250M  249M     0 100% /
> <snip>
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 
> > 0       1
> > /dev/hda9       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> <snip>
> > Is it possible to symlink /bin, /etc/, + others into the /home 
> > partition? or just use a partitioner to resize the /home?  Which has 
> > the least impact on the filesystem?
> >
> Resizing /home implies resizing / also; I don't know if any of the Linux 
> partitioning tools will do non-destructive resizing.
> 
> Another option would be to clean whatever is eating up space on /, such 
> as old kernels and the associated /lib/modules directory.

Or reinstall, merging /usr and /var into /.

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