Linux File system

tellkarenzi · 03-21-2006, 01:33 AM

Hello, am new to this forum and am happy i new that this is available for us,
first i congratulate the initiators of this forum.
am having a problem of my red hat file system, when it boot it tells me that /etc/fstab could not mount, and thereafter it prompts me to give the root password or make control-D to sontinue, when i give the root password and run the command #df -h it shows me that all the partitions are 100% used.
how can i get rid of that situation ?.

regards

Simon Bridge · 03-21-2006, 07:07 PM

This isn't making much sence here, so I guess I need a bit more information.

You see, /etc/fstab is not normally the subject of a mount command...

So I guess I'll want the actual wording of that error please. I'll need to know more about your configuration and so on... which Red Hat Linux are you using? How did you partition the drives and what is the size of the partitions?

It is possible that, if you have less than 7Gb available, the all the partitions will be 100% used. The answer is to add new hard drives.

when I do: df -h I get:

Code:

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1              73G   19G   51G  27% /
/dev/hda1             251M   21M  218M   9% /boot
/dev/shm              363M     0  363M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3             2.8G  4.0K  2.8G   1% /usr/vfat

... this is a fairly typical redhat partition scheme, only there are two hard drives. hda1 is boot, hda2 is swap, hda3 is space which I have filled with a vfat partition - can't remember why - and the second drive, the big one, is devoted to root. As you can see, my system resources are woefully underused!

If you were to post your output, this may help clear things up.

Lastly - please edit your profile (My LQ > Edit Profile on the right of this page) to show your distribution and location (like mine, see left). I'm guessing english is not your first language...

Thank you.