the symlink method will not work if this is an anonymous ftp with
chrooted environment ...
in this case fall back to mounting the partition directly in ftp/incoming
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 5:50 PM
To: Isaacson, Scott D.; Linux-Newbie (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Space checking.
I don't drive, but I'll answer anyway.
1. the command "df" will list the used and available space on all mounted
filesystems.
2. You say that hdb is "in place, formatted, and mounted". I assume you
mean
it has one or more ext2 partitions (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc.) on it.
All
you should need to do, then, is create a directory on one of the hdb*
filesystems, then symlink /home/ftp/imcoming to it. Making some arbitrary
assumptions about where you've mounted the new partitions, this would
look
something like
rm /home/ftp/incoming (be sure to cp any files in it first)
mkdir /mnt/newdrive/ftp
mkdir /mnt/newdrive/ftp/incoming
ln -s /mnt/newdrive/ftp/incoming /home/ftp/incoming
OR, if you want to dedicate an entire partition to this function, you can
mount the partition on /home/ftp/incoming, with a command like
mount /dev/hdb1 /home/ftp/incoming
At 10:40 AM 3/19/99 -0500, Isaacson, Scott D. wrote:
>Good Morning! Or evening or afternoon as your timezone allows.
>
>I'm wondering if there is a way to check for available hard drive space
on a
>linux machine. My company needs to setup an FTP server to allow our
>customers to FTP databases to us from time to time. Well, the server is
up
>and running, but a customer tried to send us a 122 meg file last night
and
>they said that they weren't able to. The system says that the file they
>sent is only 47 megs. I'm wondering if I'm running out of room?
>
>Also, I have a new hard drive I'd like to put in the machine. I'd like
to
>set things up so that everything that goes to the /home/ftp/incoming
>directory goes right to hdb. Any thoughts on that? The hard drive is
in
>place, formatted and mounted. Just not sure how to set things up so
that
>all data in the /home/ftp/incoming folder is on that new drive.
>
>If any can answer either of these questions I'll buy you a car.
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