Hi:
I'm running Red Hat 9 on a Poweredge 4400 & my root partition is at 100 capacity.

My disk partititions are as follows:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 6.0G 5.9G 0 100% /
/dev/sdb5 20G 1.9G 17G 11% /home
/dev/sdb7 2.9G 33M 2.8G 2% /tmp
/dev/sdb6 12G 2.9G 7.8G 28% /usr
/dev/sdb1 77G 31G 43G 42% /var
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm

I do not have the ability to add an additional drive as this server has capacity for 8 drives and all bays are full. I have been moving/deleting files but have not made a dent in available space. I checked for files with large file sizes (find / -xdev -size +10000000c) and there are none. (except one - mentioned below)

The one very large file is a hidden file (.journal) in the / partition which has not been modified since 8/10/02. However I can't move the file - (access denied) even as root.
What is this file and it is possible to delete/move if dropped down to runlevel 1?

Also, would it be okay to remove all old versions of the kernel in the /boot partition?

I'm guessing this volume has a very large block size - so the files are taking up more space than they should.
Any suggestions to free up space?
Many thanks!

find a large directory about 1gb or so and move it to a partition that you know won't fill up.

then in fstab you can setup a mount bind that will map the old directory to where the data was moved to.

for example say you moved /etc/cheese to /tmp/cheese

you would then have an fstab entry like:
/etc/cheese /tmp/cheese none bind 1 0

Pretty sure that .journal contains the journal record associated with ext3 journaling.

You could try converting “/” (unmounted, of course) back to ext2 and then converting the ext2 to ext3 to reestablish the journal. See the RHEL4 System Administration Guide for details:

6.4. Reverting to an ext2 File System: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...t2-revert.html

6.3. Converting to an ext3 File System: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...3-convert.html

Here is some more on that:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00034.html

but i'm not sure that is going to free up much space.

Thank you both for responding!
I did try and move a few directories from / to other directories, & created a fstab entry. However, did not free up much space.
The .journal file is actually just over 3GB in size, so I know if I can move or delete it, that would solve the problem. (just wasnt' sure if it was a critical file)
This is a high volume webserver - so after hours, I will attempt to revert to the ext2 file system and see if I can delete the .journal file that way.
Or, seems the safer route might be to resize the .journal file.
Again, many thanks.