adding space to root

Balakrishna · 01-06-2007, 02:44 AM

Hi,

I am using Fedora Core4. i ran out of space in root partition. Now my kde is also not running for this reasons. But i can login using recovery mode(single user text mode). I don't have any free space in other partition except 400MB in /boot and some more space in windows partition.

how can i add this to root?.Is there any way to do this?

thanks..

zulfilee · 01-06-2007, 03:19 AM

Try this
Go to /var/log and /tmp directory and cleanup unwanted files there.
In /var/log you can clean all the rotate files [will have an extension of .1.gz,.2.gz,etc ]
Check if /var is occupying the most space

du -sh /var/*

While installing linux its good to have /var as a seperate partition.

bobdevis · 01-06-2007, 04:30 AM

Most probably you can not boot normaly because nothing can be written to /temp as it is full

Here is something you could do as a temporary sulution; move /temp to your boot partition.
-make a 'temp' dir in /boot (so you have /boot/temp)
-remove your normal /temp directory (you could copy the contents of /temp to /boot/temp before you delete it, but is this case it is not necesary)
- make a symlink from /temp to /boot/temp do it like this;

Code:

sudo ln -s /temp/boot /temp

hope this helps.