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Hello miguel,
Back everything up before resizing the partitions.
JBB
Thursday, September 13, 2001, 9:58:28 AM, you wrote:
mdpnc> There's a program named ext2resize or similar. IIRC, latest Partition Magic
mdpnc> can resize extended2 partitions as well.
mdpnc> Best regards
mdpnc> Miguel Dilaj
mdpnc> "Michael Klama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@redhat.com on 13/09/2001
mdpnc> 09:17:32
mdpnc> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mdpnc> cc:
mdpnc> Subject: RE: Running a windows program on a linux box
mdpnc> I am wondering if there is a way to move some of the free space from one
mdpnc> directory to another. I have 7.8G of free space in my /home directory and
mdpnc> have 0 free space in my /var directory. I need to make more room in my
mdpnc> /var
mdpnc> directory so I can download and install a program that I need. If this is
mdpnc> not an option, then I would appreciate some insight into which of the
mdpnc> following files can be safely moved from my /var directory to make room.
mdpnc> Arpwatch
mdpnc> Cache
mdpnc> Db
mdpnc> ftp
mdpnc> gdm empty
mdpnc> kerberos
mdpnc> lib
mdpnc> local empty
mdpnc> lock
mdpnc> log
mdpnc> lost+found empty
mdpnc> mail -->
mdpnc> mars new do not use netware
mdpnc> named
mdpnc> nis empty
mdpnc> opt empty
mdpnc> preserve empty
mdpnc> run
mdpnc> spool
mdpnc> state
mdpnc> tmp empty
mdpnc> tux empty
mdpnc> www appears to be for apache web server which I do not use...correct
mdpnc> me if
mdpnc> I am wrong
mdpnc> anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated.
mdpnc> Mike
mdpnc> -----Original Message-----
mdpnc> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
mdpnc> Behalf Of Michael Klama
mdpnc> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:04 PM
mdpnc> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> Subject: RE: Running a windows program on a linux box
mdpnc> Larry,
mdpnc> You are absolutely right. df -h revealed that /var is filled to
mdpnc> capacity...absolutely no free space left. Being the amateur that I am,
mdpnc> would it be possible for you to give me a clue as to how I can move files
mdpnc> out of the /var directory to another directory? Or, better yet, is there a
mdpnc> way to allocate some of the free space that I have in another directory
mdpnc> into
mdpnc> the /var directory? I really appreciate your help.
mdpnc> Mike
mdpnc> -----Original Message-----
mdpnc> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
mdpnc> Behalf Of Larry Grover
mdpnc> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:56 AM
mdpnc> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mdpnc> Subject: RE: Running a windows program on a linux box
mdpnc> 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
mdpnc> I've never had, nor heard of, this problem myself, so I'm guessing
mdpnc> here -- maybe the partition which holds /var on your system out of
mdpnc> free space?
mdpnc> Here's why I'm guessing this:
mdpnc> -/etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole is a very short script which does 2 things:
mdpnc> changes ownership of /dev/console and runs sessreg
mdpnc> (/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg) which adds an entry to u/wtmp (in /var/log).
mdpnc> I'd expect this to fail if there is no free space in /var.
mdpnc> -the Win4Lin installer puts its files into /var/win4lin/, including
mdpnc> the win4lin rpms (which go into /var/win4lin/installer_tmp/). On the
mdpnc> machine I'm at right now, /var/win4lin has 138M of files. While
mdpnc> you've probably got less in your /var/win4lin directory (mine has the
mdpnc> downloads from several upgrades in it) -- it was probably enough to
mdpnc> fill up the remaining free space on that partition, precipitating the
mdpnc> problem you have now.
mdpnc> How to fix this? You need to get into this system -- use you favorite
mdpnc> rescue medium (your rescue disk, redhat CD, tomsrtbt, linuxcare BBC,
mdpnc> etc -- or maybe you can ssh/telnet it from another system?) to get
mdpnc> into the system and find out how much free space you have on the
mdpnc> partition which holds /var ("df -h"). If I guessed right, you won't
mdpnc> have any free space left on this partition, so you'll need to make
mdpnc> some. Move some of the files in /var to another partition or delete
mdpnc> some -- but be sure not to move/delete anything important.
mdpnc> If I guessed wrong then you'll need to get help from someone else.
mdpnc> Maybe somebody else on this list will have some better advice, or you
mdpnc> could try 2 other places:
mdpnc> -The netraverse techsupport web page
mdpnc> (http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=supporthome -- click
mdpnc> on the "ask a question" link to get an online tech support form to
mdpnc> fill out -- when I've had a question in the past, someone from
mdpnc> netraverse has answered quickly and accurately).
mdpnc> -The win4lin-users mailing list (sign up at
mdpnc> http://www.netraverse.com/support/maillists.php). This list has some
mdpnc> really knowledgable and helpful people on it (including several of the
mdpnc> netraverse people). It's a good resouce, and you may want to
mdpnc> subscribe to it anyway, if you decide to keep on using Win4Lin.
mdpnc> I hope this helps you out.
mdpnc> --
mdpnc> Larry Grover, PhD
mdpnc> Assoc Prof of Physiology
mdpnc> Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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