Re: / full?

[Adam Collins <adam@nutthouse.us>]

> 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% /
> tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda9              66G  5.2G   58G   9% /home
> /dev/hda8             361M  8.1M  334M   3% /tmp
> /dev/hda5             4.6G  2.2G  2.3G  50% /usr
> /dev/hda6             2.8G  377M  2.3G  15% /var
> tmpfs                 249M  112K  249M   1% /dev
>
>
>
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0     
>  1 /dev/hda9       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda8       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda5       /usr            ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda6       /var            ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda7       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/sdb1       /mnt/digipad    vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> 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?
>
> thanks in advance

This little gem might help you diagnose your space issues from the command 
line, as it's saved me many times:

# du -m -x --max-depth=1 / | sort -n

You'll get a listing of top level directories disk usage (in MB) for the / 
filesystem only, sorted by size in ascending order.  You can then drill 
down into other directories to see what's hogging your disk space.

You're better off IMHO being efficient with your / filesystem rather than 
trying to symlink a directories this way and that.  You should be able to 
get your / filesystem to under 200MB unless you're storing something in 
there on purpose, or at least move the offending files somewhere else.

Adam

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