Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-09 Thread Basajaun
Luis Finotti wrote: Dear Basajaun and all, Basajaun wrote: [snip] Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest directory(ies) residing in /, e.g. du -sh /* then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger partition, where space is not a

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown ChatagnierL-Home:~# df Filesystem

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Allison
Joris Huizer wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
[snip] Phil said: Your / partition is where /lib lives, and you've only got ~18MB. I'd say your modules directory should take up more than that. 30MB+. Prolly not enough space. Hey Phil, thanks, that explains it. Now how to get more space on /? I could resize partitions with cfdisk and

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:36:21AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: if resizing / really cannot be done, maybe create a new /lib partition instead Don't do this! /lib, /bin and /etc MUST be on your root filesystem or the system won't boot. Frank -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
Obviously, the following line: cp -R /big_dir /scratch/ should read: mv /big_dir /scratch/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Thanks to all you guys for your suggestions. I'll have to study a while before I decide how to proceed as I tend to get symlinks backwards even after reading man. I actually feel more comfortable resizind partitions. One thing I'd like to kow before closing this thread, how does one know, or

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear Basajaun and all, Basajaun wrote: [snip] Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest directory(ies) residing in /, e.g. du -sh /* then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger partition, where space is not a problem, e.g. cp -R /big_dir

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-07 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown ChatagnierL-Home:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used