On Saturday 18 December 2004 9:23 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
I''m running SuSE 9.1 and just had a big problem arise. My root partition just filled up and now things are getting real dicey. Konqueror cannot start and other programs are getting flakey, too.
The obvious solution is to use some of the unused space on another partition. My question is which is the best way to do that?
My root partition, hda6, is 1GB small while the unused partition is hda10 and is 4GB big. Root contains, among other things, /bin , /sbin , /tmp , Get to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), login as root, init 3 to stop X, delete all of /tmp, (init 5 if you need the GUI back) and that should give you some breathing room. Then you can at least have a usable system to re-partition, expand partitions, move directories to partitions with more room, etc. There shouldn't be anything in /tmp that can't be recreated on the fly.
and /root. I first thought of copying all of root to a dvd and then redoing the drives but that is a lot of iffy stuff for me as I'm not real confident the dvd writing program is doing things correctly. Can I simply move all of / to /srv, which is the unused directory, then rename them in fstab? Or can I simply make a link to the unused directory and move some stuff over there? Or can I use something like parted or PQ Magic to resize the partitions without losing data? I dont believe I can do such a thing across non-contiguous partitions.
It appears I will have to use a rescue disk of some sort to do any transfers.
Any suggestions are welcome, including RTFM, if you can tell me where the M is.
TIA, Richard
How large is the drive and how much free space do you actually have to play with here? Maybe if you gave us all the details of all the partition sizes and what is on each partition we could help with re-allocating space. Stan