[gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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 I am thinking about how to resize my ext3 partitions. Bellow is the output of fdisk: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbbc58b91 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 893 7168000 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 8935968407654407 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 10622 1945870975488f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 10622 13575237199727 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 13575 13581 54819 83 Linux /dev/sda7 13582 13831 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 13832 1507710008463+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 15078 1945835182990 83 Linux sda8 is my root partition and sda9 is my home partition where there is plenty of space. Is there any safe way to resize with Linux tools? The descriptions found on google did not help me a lot... Thanks for your help! -- Regards, Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much. Now I am thinking about how to resize my ext3 partitions. I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. 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 bests
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB. Also unmerge old unneeded kernels and remove leftovers from old kernels found in /usr/src and /lib/modules (or /lib64/modules)
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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
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 I am thinking about how to resize my ext3 partitions. Bellow is the output of fdisk: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbbc58b91 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 893 7168000 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 8935968407654407 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 10622 1945870975488f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 10622 13575237199727 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 13575 13581 54819 83 Linux /dev/sda7 13582 13831 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 13832 1507710008463+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 15078 1945835182990 83 Linux sda8 is my root partition and sda9 is my home partition where there is plenty of space. Is there any safe way to resize with Linux tools? The descriptions found on google did not help me a lot... Try this article: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions Regards, Masood Ahmed -- Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world.
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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 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 found in /usr/src and /lib/modules (or /lib64/modules) You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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 /usr/portage/distfiles/ (download location). /usr/portage/distfiles can get pretty large over time. I cleaned this directory frequently, but still running low on disk space... -- Regards, Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
+++ 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 resources that much. Now I am thinking about how to resize my ext3 partitions. Bellow is the output of fdisk: Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp location, sometimes things get left here) and /usr/portage/distfiles/ (download location). /usr/portage/distfiles can get pretty large over time. -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; // but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. // - Alan Perlis pgpQqGhykOMP6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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 found in /usr/src and /lib/modules (or /lib64/modules) 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 everything older than 1 day (the test helps not to disturb a running portage or get ugly split logs). Philipp
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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. Also unmerge old unneeded kernels and remove leftovers from old kernels found in /usr/src and /lib/modules (or /lib64/modules) 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 everything older than 1 day (the test helps not to disturb a running portage or get ugly split logs). 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? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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. Now I am thinking about how to resize my ext3 partitions. I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. -- Neil Bothwick Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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 location, sometimes things get left here) and /usr/portage/distfiles/ (download location). /usr/portage/distfiles can get pretty large over time. I cleaned this directory frequently, but still running low on disk space... I may have missed something of your configuration or partitions (did you have a separate /usr?), but check old and useless kernel sources from under /usr/src (and under /lib/modules if you've compiled and installed modules). Clean out old and unused ones. Compiled kernel sources directories can be over 800 MB *each*. For example for my current /usr/src/linux (which points to ./linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5) du says 818MB. You don't need too many of these to fill up a 10GB partition. -- Arttu V.
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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 everything older than 1 day (the test helps not to disturb a running portage or get ugly split logs). 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? Check man emerge and read (carefully) --clean --depclean and --prune options. Use any of these judiciously because you can easily hose your box (if you get rid of your compiler for example). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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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 just forget about the useless bind-mount and add -x to the du command. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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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 and /var/log/portage can be cleaned up by a script that compresses everything older than 1 day (the test helps not to disturb a running portage or get ugly split logs). 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? Check man emerge and read (carefully) --clean --depclean and --prune options. Use any of these judiciously because you can easily hose your box (if you get rid of your compiler for example). -- Regards, Mick I was only talking about getting rid of log files in /var/log/portage where it keeps a record of each build of every program. Seems to me only the most recent one is significant. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition
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. -- Neil Bothwick Idaho - It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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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 and working, you don't need the elog any more. -- Neil Bothwick Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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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 space in directories that are used as mount points. How often does that happen? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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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 up, particularly hen running a small root. All it needs is for an NFS mount to fail unnoticed when you boot. -- Neil Bothwick If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n°6 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
