On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:51:55PM -0400, Salman Haq wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > When trying to compile some code, I got the following error: > > > > cpp0: /tmp/ccFJJwQN.ii: No space left on device > > > > I then realized that /tmp is mounted on my root partition, which was > > full: > > > > #df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda3 463M 440M 1.0k 100% / > > /dev/hda5 37G 2.5G 32G 8% /usr > > > > # df -ih > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > > /dev/hda3 120k 20k 100k 17% / > > /dev/hda5 4.7M 149k 4.5M 4% /usr > > > > Now, I realize that this a very bad partition scheme but I'm just a > > newbie. When I was installing debian a few months ago, I didn't intend to > > have this scheme. I wanted root to be mounted as '/' and everything else > > under '/usr' since thats the bigger partition. Unfortunately, most of > > everything is mounted under '/'. I wonder where I went wrong... > > > > Can I change this situation, without re-formatting/re-partitioning? Or, > > atleast for now, which files can I safely delete to free-up some space? > > I recommend you use one huge / partition. This way you won't run into > this type of problem. You can delete logs in /var/log to get some free > space, then I suggest you install parted which will allow you to change > the size of your partitions. I suggest you shrink your /usr partition > down to 5-10 gigs (I doubt you will install more software than this) and > increase / to use up the extra space. > > The /usr partition is usually used to install software. The / partition > holds everything that doesn't have its own partition, like /home, /var, > /etc, etc. > > Bijan Thanks everybody for your helpful responses. To make some temporary room I cleaned up some logs and unnecessary directories in a few of the home directories of some of the users. Then I resolved to fix the problem once and for all by using parted to resize the partitions. When I finally got around to doing it this past weekend, things didn't go as smoothly as I thought they would. When I boot the system using the parted boot disk and started parted I saw the following warning message: Using /dev/hda attempt to access beyond end of device 03:00: rw=0, want=58593752, limit=58593750 Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 7294/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M This is the information that parted shows about my partitions: Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-57220.458 megabytes Disk lable type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 31.376 primary fat 16 2 31.377 15390.395 primary ntfs boot 3 15390.396 15868.894 primary ext2 4 15868.894 54493.923 extended 5 15868.925 54015.424 logical ext2 6 54015.456 54390.396 logical linux-swap Since my original problem requires me to shrink hda5 down to ~10 gigs and expand hda3 to ~30 gigs I set about to do the following: (parted) resize 5 40869.024 54015.424 and saw this: attempt to access ... of device 03:00: rw-=0, ... limit=58593750 <-(same error msg as before) Warning: You requested to resize the partition to 40869.024-54015.424Mb. The closest Parted can manage is 15868.925-54015.424. Ok/Cancel? c So parted doesn't want to resize the partition that way. Then I quit parted and restarted it as "parted /dev/hda5" and typed: (parted) resize 1 0.000 13146.4 That actually resized something... when I restarted my computer normally, /dev/hda5 mounted to /usr and "df" showed its size as 12 gigs (as opposed to the old 37 gigs). However, parted continues to show the original numbers. Morever, I still haven't solved my original problem, which is expanding /dev/hda3. When I try: (parted) resize 3 15390.393 40000.000 it says "The closest parted can manage is 15390.393 15868.894" I also tried "parted /dev/hda4" but that just says "can't partition outside of disk" even if I simply try to print info. What do I have to do to get rid of that disk access error and shrink hda5 (or hda4,5,6) and expand hda3? In the meanwhile, I have 'resized' hda5 back to its original size so that 'df' show its size as 37 gigs. I hope this makes sense. thanks ... salman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
