out of space on hd

inthedeepend · 10-12-2003, 06:36 PM

I have run out of space on one of my harddrives and need to make more - is there a linux program similar to partition magic that does this? Is there any other way?
Total newbie so please make answers basic! LOL

trickykid · 10-12-2003, 07:34 PM

Are you talking about your whole hard drive or just one partition? More details get better responses.

inthedeepend · 10-12-2003, 07:37 PM

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 2015576 2015576 0 100% /
/dev/hda1 99043 10590 83339 12% /boot
/dev/hdb1 76920416 22008604 51004404 31% /vms
none 579884 0 579884 0% /dev/shm

this is what I get when I type df! Does that help?

quatsch · 10-12-2003, 07:46 PM

not really. need to know how big your harddrive is. Do
fdisk -l /dev/hda

it will tell you how big the hd is and how big each partition is.

inthedeepend · 10-12-2003, 07:48 PM

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 204 4266 2047752 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4267 6298 1024128 82 Linux swap

Thanks quatsch. Linux makes me feel so incompetant but I'm trying! LOL

trickykid · 10-12-2003, 07:50 PM

Well you have space on your second hard drive. But really you could try clearing out any temp files in /tmp and clearing out some of your log files in /var/log that are taking up space first.

Then I would suggest creating another partition or several depending on how much space you have on the second hard drive, /dev/hdb, and maybe move like /usr or create two partitions for /tmp and /var, or something along those lines.

emetib · 10-12-2003, 07:50 PM

http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-07/guru_01.html

quatsch · 10-12-2003, 08:00 PM

the output of fdisk should have given you the total size of the disk on the first line. If that looks to be more than what the partitions add up to, then it's not that hard. Add a few partitions and do what trickykid suggested. Your swap partition seems to be about 1Gig. Do you really need that much? - most people don't so maybe you could cut that down as well.