There's a program named ext2resize or similar. IIRC, latest Partition Magic
can resize extended2 partitions as well.
Best regards
Miguel Dilaj
"Michael Klama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@redhat.com on 13/09/2001
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I am wondering if there is a way to move some of the free space from one
directory to another. I have 7.8G of free space in my /home directory and
have 0 free space in my /var directory. I need to make more room in my
/var
directory so I can download and install a program that I need. If this is
not an option, then I would appreciate some insight into which of the
following files can be safely moved from my /var directory to make room.
Arpwatch
Cache
Db
ftp
gdm empty
kerberos
lib
local empty
lock
log
lost+found empty
mail -->
mars new do not use netware
named
nis empty
opt empty
preserve empty
run
spool
state
tmp empty
tux empty
www appears to be for apache web server which I do not use...correct
me if
I am wrong
anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
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Larry,
You are absolutely right. df -h revealed that /var is filled to
capacity...absolutely no free space left. Being the amateur that I am,
would it be possible for you to give me a clue as to how I can move files
out of the /var directory to another directory? Or, better yet, is there a
way to allocate some of the free space that I have in another directory
into
the /var directory? I really appreciate your help.
Mike
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:38:53 Michael Klama wrote:
> Hello Larry,
> It is a grim day here, not only because of what has happened around
> our
> country but also because of a win4lin installation problem. I am
> hoping
> that you can help me with this problem. After the first step of the
> installation, I am required to reboot. When I reboot, my machine
> comes to
> the graphical login at which point I enter my username and password
> and hit
> enter and I receive the following error: Startup program
> /etc/X11/xdm/Give
> Console exited with non zero status. Click ok to retry. At this
> point it
> takes me back to the graphical login and it starts all over. If you
> or
> anyone else can help me to restore my system and let me finish this
> installation, I would greatly appreciate it.
> Thank you
> Mike
I've never had, nor heard of, this problem myself, so I'm guessing
here -- maybe the partition which holds /var on your system out of
free space?
Here's why I'm guessing this:
-/etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole is a very short script which does 2 things:
changes ownership of /dev/console and runs sessreg
(/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg) which adds an entry to u/wtmp (in /var/log).
I'd expect this to fail if there is no free space in /var.
-the Win4Lin installer puts its files into /var/win4lin/, including
the win4lin rpms (which go into /var/win4lin/installer_tmp/). On the
machine I'm at right now, /var/win4lin has 138M of files. While
you've probably got less in your /var/win4lin directory (mine has the
downloads from several upgrades in it) -- it was probably enough to
fill up the remaining free space on that partition, precipitating the
problem you have now.
How to fix this? You need to get into this system -- use you favorite
rescue medium (your rescue disk, redhat CD, tomsrtbt, linuxcare BBC,
etc -- or maybe you can ssh/telnet it from another system?) to get
into the system and find out how much free space you have on the
partition which holds /var ("df -h"). If I guessed right, you won't
have any free space left on this partition, so you'll need to make
some. Move some of the files in /var to another partition or delete
some -- but be sure not to move/delete anything important.
If I guessed wrong then you'll need to get help from someone else.
Maybe somebody else on this list will have some better advice, or you
could try 2 other places:
-The netraverse techsupport web page
(http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=supporthome -- click
on the "ask a question" link to get an online tech support form to
fill out -- when I've had a question in the past, someone from
netraverse has answered quickly and accurately).
-The win4lin-users mailing list (sign up at
http://www.netraverse.com/support/maillists.php). This list has some
really knowledgable and helpful people on it (including several of the
netraverse people). It's a good resouce, and you may want to
subscribe to it anyway, if you decide to keep on using Win4Lin.
I hope this helps you out.
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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