need to mount extra / space
My 17-month old slack 9.0 install still works, but I just did df. I'm out of space on the partition mounted as /:
$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 1412584 1339492 0 100% / /dev/hda10 947060 100136 797928 12% /var /dev/hda11 4727712 1735880 2747648 39% /usr /dev/hda12 11349944 5186204 5577772 49% /home I have several available empty ext3- or Reiser3-formatted partitions on my hdd. Can I simply add a line in etc/fstab to mount a second partition as /? Or will that confuse everything? Bad symptoms: xfig stopped exporting files to gif. KGV stopped opening PDFs. GV works fine. I've got a Slack 10 install on some other partitions, but I feel like just sticking with the old 9.0 for my daily work. |
Probably some stuff in /tmp you can get rid of - it seems to be on /. If you've never cleaned it out, there may be a *lot*. Can also use find and du and other tools to check large space-wasters. Remove unneeded packages. And so on. Not sure what you mean by having two roots and I'm not sure what I'd want to hive off other than /tmp, given that /usr, /var, and /home are already off. (I usually do /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local.)
That root partition seems kind of small anyway. If you have another large partition, you could try *switching* roots, yeah. -- Actually, what am I thinking of? If you've got all of /usr then the root partition should be plenty. You must have *something* wasting space. (In mine, like I say, only /usr/local where I install my own is off - /usr itself, is on my /, which means I need a couple gigs to have breathing room.) -- Okay, I'm going to give up now. Last edit. But when I say 'switch roots' I meant moving your current root to a larger empty partition. Just wanted to be clear about that, since you say you have a Slack 10 as well. I don't mean switch roots with *that*. ;) |
Thanks
Thanks for the reply. Back in May 2004, / was using just 49%. Is there anything important in /tmp? I assume I can't just blindly delete everything in /tmp.
In the meanwhile, I'll play around with du. |
Problem solved?
Part of ls -l of /tmp was:
-rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 696668160 Jan 10 19:17 f2d2191.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 135168 Jan 10 19:19 f2d2213.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:20 f2d2220.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:23 f2d2234.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:26 f2d2250.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:32 f2d2259.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:34 f2d2265.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 4096 Jan 10 21:05 f2d2270.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:47 f2d893.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 19:51 f2d903.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 20:00 f2d927.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 cliff users 0 Jan 10 20:09 f2d961.ppm So I moved f2d22191 to Trash -- just in case it's something I need. Now df gives me 50% usage of /. What's a .ppm file? Thanks for the quick response and preventing me from doing a catastrophe! Cliff |
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Seems to be a 'portable pixmap' - giant graphics file, I guess. Glad it turned out to be an easy fix. :) If you do have a spare partition, putting /tmp on it would be good. |
xfig joy
Now my xfig exports transparent gifs, no problem.
Now KGhostView opens PDFs again. So they needed space in /tmp or maybe just / in order to function. Yeah, digiot, I might just follow your advice and isolate /tmp on its own partition. Thanks a million. |
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