On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:23:32PM -0800, Charlie Reiman wrote: > It probably does. Unmount /var/cache, then cd /var/cache. You'll find all > your old stuff is probably still there. You can them probably do: > > cd /var > mv cache cache.old > mkdir cache > mount /var/cache
Yup. But you I also had to delete the cache.old directory. I'd tarred all of /var before I started so I wasn't too worried about things going missing. debian:/var# rm -Rf cache.old debian:/var# umount /var/cache debian:/var# cd /var/cache/ debian:/var/cache# ll total 2.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:09 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 .. debian:/var/cache# mount /var/cache debian:/var/cache# ll total 2.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:09 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 .. debian:/var/cache# cd debian:~# cd /var/cache debian:/var/cache# ll total 45K drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K Jan 27 16:38 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 analog drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 apache drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:46 apt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 debconf drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 fonts drwx------ 2 root root 16K Jan 27 14:42 lost+found drwxr-sr-x 15 man root 4.0K Jan 27 15:29 man debian:/var/cache# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 474474 28446 421529 7% / /dev/hda3 4806936 2120004 2442744 47% /home /dev/hda5 2403420 1359416 921912 60% /usr /dev/hda6 474443 108362 341584 25% /var /dev/hda7 2885780 46500 2692692 2% /usr/local /dev/hda9 46636 45 44183 1% /tmp /dev/hda10 2403344 340500 1940752 15% /var/cache /var is now down to 25% and I can pick up mail again! > This will mount the new /var/cache without destroying the old one. If > everything works to your satisfaction: rm -rf /var/cache.old. That should > free up the space. Thank you thank you thank you. :) -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
