Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition
List,
We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our
NFS server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate
partitions, I'm not sure what I could remove from '/' partition. df
shows the problem, and the space available on the other partitions:
server4:/# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 2919360 2919324 36 100% /
tmpfs 512856 0 512856 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 808 9432 8% /dev
tmpfs 512856 0 512856 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md6 1892786624 1467249964 425536660 78% /nfs
/dev/sda1 320310 15665 287556 6% /boot
/dev/sdb1 320310 15665 287556 6% /boot2
/dev/md5 39043328 2431240 36612088 7% /home
/dev/md4 971648 4324 967324 1% /tmp
/dev/md2 9755264 1241512 8513752 13% /usr
/dev/md3 4872448 790660 4081788 17% /var
server4:/#
This is a live server, relied on by several desktop systems and, to a
lesser extent, some other servers. The partition exported to the rest
of the network is regularly backed up.
Am I correct in thinking that I cannot, while running, shrink or grow
any of the partitions? Presumably I could do that if the server was
offline, perhaps by running a partition editor from a CD or USB stick,
maybe?
There is a GUI on this system but, aside from that, few if any
'applications'; we do run samba, but not apache, we run exim, and I
notice that open office is installed (which will be long out of date,
by now, anyway, and I'll remove). Are there any large-ish services
that are believed to not always be necessary on a server, and whose
removal might release a reasonable amount of space on '/'?
regards, Ron
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