[SuSE Linux] / partition full!!!
I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran updatedb and...BOOM! My / partition is full! I made it 95MB at install, thinking that would be more than enough. I guess I was wrong! My question is: WVDial is the only thing I have installed over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other than a re-install? I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is what puzzles me about this. Should / fill up so easily? TIA. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
where is /tmp ? you can have large tmp files go there what about /var and you can easly move stuff around so it is on /usr as for 95 megs I had installs with a running linux at less then yhat. (no X) On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 crumb@midwest.net wrote:
I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran updatedb and...BOOM! My / partition is full! I made it 95MB at install, thinking that would be more than enough. I guess I was wrong! My question is: WVDial is the only thing I have installed over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other than a re-install? I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is what puzzles me about this. Should / fill up so easily? TIA. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
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Hi, On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 crumb@midwest.net wrote:
I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran updatedb and...BOOM! My / partition is full! I made it 95MB at install, thinking that would be more than enough. I guess I was wrong! My question is: WVDial is the only thing I have installed over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other than a re-install? I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is what puzzles me about this. Should / fill up so easily? TIA.
You can try this: 1. Use fdisk and create a new partition of the desired size. 2. Mount it under /mnt for now 3. cd / 4. find . -xdev -depth -print | cpio -pdumv /mnt 5. make changes to /mnt/etc/fstab (change /dev/sda# for root fs) 6. make changes to /etc/lilo.conf and /mnt/etc/lilo.conf 7. run lilo 8. reboot I did not test it on linux, but similar thing worked for me on AIX. Just in case have a backup handy (-; -alexm - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Some directories to check might be /tmp and /var I think that they will both be mounting off of /. Also, if you are doing a lot as root and have a lot in your root directory that could be filling up /. --Kyle On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 crumb@midwest.net wrote:
I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran updatedb and...BOOM! My / partition is full! I made it 95MB at install, thinking that would be more than enough. I guess I was wrong! My question is: WVDial is the only thing I have installed over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other than a re-install? I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is what puzzles me about this. Should / fill up so easily? TIA.
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On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Kyle Edbauer wrote:
Some directories to check might be /tmp and /var I think that they will both be mounting off of /. Also, if you are doing a lot as root and have a lot in your root directory that could be filling up /.
--Kyle
Check /opt -- that's where kde and netscape get installed, and other packages as well. I have separate partitions for /home, /usr, /var but not for /opt What I do is first install base only, then: # rmdir /opt # mkdir /usr/opt # ln -s /usr/opt /opt Then I do a full install.
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 crumb@midwest.net wrote:
I finally configured wvdial and fetchmail properly, and ran updatedb and...BOOM! My / partition is full! I made it 95MB at install, thinking that would be more than enough. I guess I was wrong! My question is: WVDial is the only thing I have installed over and above a full SuSE install, so; Do I have any options other than a re-install? I have plenty of room on /usr and /home, which is what puzzles me about this. Should / fill up so easily? TIA.
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Can he remove core files? ie: locate core are all those core files needed? or are they remmenant of installd programs? rob - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, you wrote:
Can he remove core files? ie: locate core are all those core files needed? or are they remmenant of installd programs? rob
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YaST has an option to edit all config files, this includes a cron job that will delete old core files. (YES, you can delete old core files) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
From: Carson Ward <carson@hal> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] / partition full!!! Date sent: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:55:33 -0600 Send reply to: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, you wrote:
Can he remove core files? ie: locate core are all those core files needed? or are they remmenant of installd programs? rob
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YaST has an option to edit all config files, this includes a cron job that will delete old core files. (YES, you can delete old core files)
YAST won't start. It gives me the error: Error creating tmpdir, DETAIL:0 FILE: Applicatio.cc Line:1397 presumably because I've ran out of / space? I tried it from the command line and X. My partition table is as follows: SWAP 100MB /100MB /USR 800MB /HOME 100MB According to Matt Welsh in "RUNNING LINUX", he puts everything in one big partition, contrary to popular wisdom, without any problems. I may try this next time:) In all fairness, I did "root around as root" much more than necessary, assuredly resulting in this problem that I have now. Live and learn (I wonder how you say that in Latin?).
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I'm not knocking Matt Welsh....but I HIGHLY recommend that you keep use several partitions. I've even gone farther that the recommended aproach, in that I've determined what uses the most space to further separate my system for upgradeabilty or running other distributions. For instance I have the following partitions mounted: /var/spool/news/....because I use leafnode, which can quickly fill a hard drive ;-) /opt /usr /usr/lib/ /junk (all that downloaded software from freshmeat.net have to go somewhere) /cdburn (a 800MB partition for CD mastering) Most likely you have something tucked away somewhere that can be deleted to restore free space. If not you may want to take a look at Partition Magic 4.0 which can resize ext2 partitions. You can then take free space from your /usr partition and add it to the /. I've used this approach several times (after make a tape backup of course), and it works like a charm. One thing I did notice is resizing the / partition will screw up LILO, so have a boot floppy handy (or a bootable CD). All you have to do is rerun LILO after booting from the floppy. Rick - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Rick Thompson wrote: [ ... ]
Most likely you have something tucked away somewhere that can be deleted to restore free space. If not you may want to take a look at Partition Magic 4.0 which can resize ext2 partitions. You can then take free space from
Take a look at Linux Journal Jan '99 page 56-59 with warnings about 4.0. The article says wait for 4.01 which may be out now. Check it out. [ ... ]
Rick
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YaST has an option to edit all config files, this includes a cron job that will delete old core files. (YES, you can delete old core files) YAST won't start. It gives me the error: Error creating tmpdir, DETAIL:0 FILE: Applicatio.cc Line:1397 presumably because I've ran out of / space? I tried it from the command line and X.
The config file that yast manipulates is /etc/rc.config so just go in find where it says delete old core and say YES there is also a line about how long old log files should be there default is 365 (days) you can tweek that down. Another setting something about tmp files , you can manipulate that You'll probably have to leave the machine running so cron can perform. do a df -h today make changes in rc.config, let the box run, and check df -h tomorrow ee what happens rob Bookmarks <A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm"><A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A">http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, dizzy wrote:
YaST has an option to edit all config files, this includes a cron job that will delete old core files. (YES, you can delete old core files) YAST won't start. It gives me the error: Error creating tmpdir, DETAIL:0 FILE: Applicatio.cc Line:1397 presumably because I've ran out of / space? I tried it from the command line and X.
The config file that yast manipulates is /etc/rc.config so just go in find where it says delete old core and say YES
Just remember to run /sbin/SuSEconfig after directly editing /etc/rc.config else reboot.
there is also a line about how long old log files should be there default is 365 (days) you can tweek that down. Another setting something about tmp files , you can manipulate that You'll probably have to leave the machine running so cron can perform. do a df -h today make changes in rc.config, let the box run, and check df -h tomorrow
see what happens rob
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Date sent: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:20:48 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Pauly <stevep@brokersys.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] / partition full!!! Send reply to: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, dizzy wrote:
YaST has an option to edit all config files, this includes a cron job that will delete old core files. (YES, you can delete old core files) YAST won't start. It gives me the error: Error creating tmpdir, DETAIL:0 FILE: Applicatio.cc Line:1397 presumably because I've ran out of / space? I tried it from the command line and X.
The config file that yast manipulates is /etc/rc.config so just go in find where it says delete old core and say YES
Just remember to run /sbin/SuSEconfig after directly editing /etc/rc.config else reboot.
I already edited rc.config and tried to run /sbin/SuSEconfig. It says ran out of space in /etc exiting. Oh well.
there is also a line about how long old log files should be there default is 365 (days) you can tweek that down. Another setting something about tmp files , you can manipulate that You'll probably have to leave the machine running so cron can perform. do a df -h today make changes in rc.config, let the box run, and check df -h tomorrow
see what happens rob
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