the volume file system roots space is decreasing

mosabja · 11-18-2010, 05:51 PM

My fedora keeps popping up this message of Low disk space..the volume file system roots has only 200 MB remaining.Then it came to 150 MB and now to 100MB.I am using fedora 13 on vmware .I set my vmware hard disk to 20 GB...

my file system is showing 100 MB free
while
my home has 12.3GB free.

Is there a way increase the size of my file system.

similar problem has been in ubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349918

but I dont know what to do with fedora.Also can some one tell me the way I can increase the size of usr folder .so that I can get some more softwares.Right now I am just stuck

stress_junkie · 11-18-2010, 06:01 PM

Did you follow the steps in that other post? In particular did you perform the $ sudo du -csh /* command?

Code:

sudo du -csh /*

That will tell you which top level directories have the most data.

Also just to be sure we are all thinking on the same page you should perform this command.

Code:

df -h /

That will tell you if the problem is on the system partition.

Post the results of both of those commands here.

mosabja · 11-18-2010, 07:39 PM

Code:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             3.9G  3.3G  360M  91% /
tmpfs                 502M  308K  502M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              49M   26M   21M  55% /boot
/dev/sda5              14G  620M   13G   5% /home

here the problem is in sda2.... This is where it shows the warning.
I want to increase it and decrease sda 5.

and

Code:

# sudo du -csh /*
6.8M	/bin
21M	/boot
540K	/dev
33M	/etc
457M	/home
104M	/lib
16K	/lost+found
4.0K	/media
8.0K	/mnt
4.0K	/opt
du: cannot access `/proc/8048/task/8048/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/8048/task/8048/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/8048/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/8048/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
0	/proc
280K	/root
14M	/sbin
0	/selinux
4.0K	/srv
0	/sys
932K	/tmp
2.9G	/usr
140M	/var
3.7G	total

stress_junkie · 11-18-2010, 08:09 PM

I see the problem. You only allocated 3.9 GB for the system partition. I always allocate about 20 GB for that. I don't think that removing temporary files or logs will help much. I recommend that you resize the /dev/sda2 partition or just start over and make /dev/sda2 about 20 GB.

I wish that I had better news for you. I was hoping that we would see some indication that you had a lot of log files. Unfortunately that does not appear to be the case.

mosabja · 11-19-2010, 02:28 AM

thanks very much.

But is there any tool or good way to resize the partition????.

I used g partition but it wont resize without unmounting.So is it safe to unmount both partitions and then resize.

syg00 · 11-19-2010, 03:42 AM

Use gparted liveCD - that way your partitions aren't mounted at all (by definition). Let's see what this produces

Code:

su -c 'fdisk -l'