Hi Dawn! I am a big fan of your site, and so happy to have other grls here!
On 9/10/09, hoyden <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I'm in trouble. > Do I have to re-partition? (look at the home dir) > and if so, what do ya'll suggest for space divvying up? > > /dev/sda2 19G 3.0G 15G 17% / > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /lib/init/rw > varrun 1007M 112K 1007M 1% /var/run > varlock 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock > udev 1007M 168K 1007M 1% /dev > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm > lrm 1007M 2.2M 1005M 1% > /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/volatile > /dev/sda1 90M 26M 60M 31% /boot > /dev/sda3 22G 21G 40K 100% /home > /dev/sda6 465M 11M 431M 3% /tmp > /dev/sda7 4.6G 138M 4.3G 4% /usr/local > /dev/sda5 6.9G 3.7G 2.9G 57% /var > > still learning... > > thanks for thinks! > Dawn > _______________________________________________ First be sure there's not any big iso in there or other files that can be decimated. You have a couple of choices, for instance, you can either relocate all of the /home directories to another partition, or just some (say the developers, changing their login $HOME to /var/www/developer/ for instance) by editing the /etc/passwd file. Be sure to add directory paths to /etc/profile where applicable in special applications using java etc in file home directories). And when you move the content over, it might be easiest to use tar -xvf to preserve user/group permissions. This is possibly the easiest approach. NOTE: Good systems administration file use states that you never build or setup any regular server based tools in your home directory. That way, if it's a production or regular process, it's going to go into /usr/sbin or /usr/local/src/ or /usr/local/bin. You can't imagine how much of mess, failure to use good standard file directory locations can be when you go to move around files or do any capacity planning! You can also move the /home to another partition trivially. Like place it under /home (make a new directory) on /dev/sda2 by tarring up content and moving to a temporary location then unmount /dev/sda3 and remove (comment) the /etc/fstab /etc/mtab (what's your distro?) mount points: # cd / # tar -cvf home.tar home # umount /dev/sda3 # vi /etc/fstab (place a # in front of the /home or /dev/sda3 entry # cd / # tar -xvf home.tar Reboot to be sure everything is working fine! NOTE, if you have your /home/ directories on the / directory, and it fills up, you can have issues logging in. Be sure that all your kernel reporting is setup to go to your email address (I use a nice gmail/postfix transport http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/send-mail-postfix-through-gmails-smtp-on-a-ubuntu-lts-server/) so you will get notified is something fills up the drive. > Reminder: All replies will go back to this mailing list. If you wish to send > a reply to a specific person, please use the reply function and change the > "To:" address to that person before sending. > -- (623)239-3392 (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/gnu-people.jpg _______________________________________________ PLUG-applications mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-applications Reminder: All replies will go back to this mailing list. If you wish to send a reply to a specific person, please use the reply function and change the "To:" address to that person before sending.
