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RE: / full?



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alvin Oga [mailto:aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:20 PM
> To: Andrew Sackville-West
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: / full?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:16:25PM -0400, 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% /
> 
> i think you have extra stuff in /srv or /selinux  or 
> /otherdirectories including stuff in /mnt or /media even if 
> nothing is mounted there
> 
> 	- move all your well tree stuff in /home/srv/web-stuff
> 
> /bin /lib /sbin /etc is NOT the problem
> 
> you can symlink /bin and other directories to /someplace-else 
> but you have to know what you're doing ... ie.. you have to 
> change all of the startup scripts and take out all the 
> hardcoded paths to /bin and /etc and /lib etc..etc
> 	- it'd probably be too much work for most folks
> 
> 250M for / is 2x more space than you need and is a good config for /
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Others have already addressed your options well enough.


I thought getting rid of the old kernels and the modules was correct.  I ll
delete those tommorrow.  Thanks again for the help.

Thanks
chris

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