Richard Crawford wrote:
> I'm trying to install Java onto my server at home so that I can start > mucking around with JSP and Tomcat. Unfortunately, the Java SDK refuses > to install, telling me that I don't have enough disk space. I ran df to > get the disk usage, and this is what I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 486M 462M 4.0K 100% / > /dev/hda6 25G 6.2G 17G 27% /home > none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda7 99M 4.1M 89M 5% /tmp > /dev/hda2 4.8G 1.5G 3.1G 32% /usr > /dev/hda3 494M 167M 301M 36% /var > > My partition map looks like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 65 701 5116702+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 702 766 522112+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 767 4111 26868712+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 767 831 522081 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda6 832 4098 26242146 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 4099 4111 104391 83 Linux > > In this case, I wonder if it's best to resize the root partition, or to go > in and wipe out a bunch of files. Thoughts? Suggestions? I'm not a Sys-admin -- just a long-time user -- but I like this partition mapping because /usr, /tmp, and /var are on their own partitions. I see there's plenty of room in /usr, but / (root) is filled up (yuck). Before doing any major surgery, I would find out why root is filled up -- you've allocated almost a half-gig to it. If it's a just a handful of big files or a single big directory, then I would move them to /usr and then add a link pointer to them from / (root). If you want to do minor surgery, I would suggest "ext2resize." I successfully used it to expand a partition, but it takes careful understanding of the relationship between blocks and cylinders. > > > Sliante, > Richard S. Crawford > > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
