Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Platoali
On Do shanbe 14 Ordibehesht 1388 18:22:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip!

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Masood Ahmed
Marco listwo...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 May 2009 16:57:06 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie amack...@edespot.com wrote: +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: [...] Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp location, sometimes things get left here) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB. Also unmerge old unneeded kernels and remove leftovers from old kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/4/09, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie amack...@edespot.com wrote: +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: [...] Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be cleaned up by a script that compresses

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 16:02:39 schrieb Platoali: Try to remount route on another directory and check which directory is using so much. I had a similar problem asked this a couple of month before on this mailing list. They gave this commands: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add -x to the du command. That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in directories that are used as mount points. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:18 -0400, John covici wrote: What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a script to do that? Why not delete everything over a week or two old? Once the package is installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 19:47:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add -x to the du command. That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in directories that are used as mount points. How often does that happen? Not very often, but it happens in a significant proportion of the times the root partition fills

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-20 Thread charly ghislain
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:00:09 +0200, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Hiscock wrote: i think the line Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can desable ? Hi James Im new to

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-20 Thread James Hiscock
Hi James Just for clarification, I'm not the one trying to resize an ext3 partition: Bruno is... snip You can make your ext3 an ext2 partition by removing the has_journal feature (tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/partition). /snip ...and your advice was similar to the advice I gave him (but

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-20 Thread charlyghislain
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:19:47 +0200, James Hiscock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi James Just for clarification, I'm not the one trying to resize an ext3 partition: Bruno is... snip You can make your ext3 an ext2 partition by removing the has_journal feature (tune2fs -O ^has_journal

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread Bruno Gola
James Hiscock wrote: It stills in trouble (with -C it does not work, so i tryied man tune2fs and i found out that it should be -O)... any idea ? My guess? I wrote down the wrong option. shrug Wouldn't really surprise me - I tend to reply to these things first thing in the morning, and I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread James Hiscock
i think the line Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can desable ? I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now. ...but, you may want to pay attention to that

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Fish
James Hiscock wrote: i think the line Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can desable ? I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now. ...but, you may want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Bruno Gola wrote: Any way to resize a ext3 partition ? I'm trying with parted: I guess you'll have to do it manually with resize2fs and fdisk. Just read the man page carefully, and think of it as a 2 or 3-step process: Growing: 1. use fdisk to grow the partition first. 2. use

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: and about the cd-writer, ive tried cdrecord -scanbus, and it appears my CD-writer there, but now, nothing appears... When cdrecord stops it just broke in my display, i cant exit it, just killing... it stops something like that: ATAPI 1: and stops (ive already wait for 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread James Hiscock
On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. 1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: tune2fs -C ^has_journal partition 2) Resize using parted 3) Add the journal back using tune2fs: tune2fs -j partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Gola
James Hiscock wrote: On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. 1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: tune2fs -C ^has_journal partition 2) Resize using parted 3) Add the journal back using

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: Hi guys, does anyone know any way to resize a ext3 partition? i'm trying QTparted (parted) and i can't... when i try with qtparted it just does not let me resize it, and with parted (text mode) it complains: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start? [32kB]?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: Hi guys, does anyone know any way to resize a ext3 partition? i'm trying QTparted (parted) and i can't... when i try with qtparted it just does not let me resize it, and with parted (text mode) it complains: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang? Try it with the -v option. Zac --

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang? Try it with the -v option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Bruno Gola wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang?