Help! Disk space error

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 27 18:33:07 UTC 2003


On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Sidney Shapiro wrote:
> I am not sure what is causing this problem, when I erased a bunch of log
> and temp files stored under / I did manage to free up some space. If I
> was to add another hard drive, would it be a problem to get it working
> with the RAID5 the other drives are on? I would rather take some free
> space (if possible) from somewhere else and add it to /.
> 
> Sid
> 
> 
> [root at root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             372M   95M  258M  27% /
> /dev/hda1              45M  8.7M   34M  21% /boot
> /dev/md0              147G  9.3G  130G   7% /home
> none                  283M     0  282M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3             8.6G  1.7G  6.5G  21% /usr
> /dev/hda7              26G  1.7G   23G   7% /var

Assuming hda6 and hda7 are sequential, partition magic should be able to
expand / and shrink /var.

Not sure which other tool can, so unless you own partition magic 6 or
higher...

Lennart Sorensen
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