Root filesystem is full so unable to mount the second device
 

Hi,
My root filesystem is 100% full & I had added a new disk as /dev/sdc
but not able to mount the second device as shown,

[root@redhat01 /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.8G 3.8G 0 100% /
/dev/sda5 12G 159M 11G 2% /home
/dev/sda1 46M 11M 33M 24% /boot
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm


[root@redhat01 /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7 515 4088542+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 516 776 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 777 2349 12635122+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 777 2349 12635091 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 609 4891761 8e Linux LVM

As my root filesystem is full so where to make the mountpoint for the second device.

how abuot you make the root filesystem NOT full? That's probably a good place to start. there has to be something you can get shot of?

Either way though, a full filesystem won't stop you mounting something on it. Actual error messages would be useful here.

Gparted-live-cd resize / by taking space from /home

I had mounted the second device partition, /dev/sdb1 as,

[root@redhat01 /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.8G 3.8G 0 100% /
/dev/sda5 12G 159M 11G 2% /home
/dev/sda1 46M 11M 33M 24% /boot
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 4.6G 9.4M 4.4G 1% /disk2

but the mountpoint is created under root filesystem as /disk2 so second device (/dev/sdb1) space will be used or root filesystem (/dev/sda2) filesystem space will be used in my case.

erm... what? What are you actually trying to achieve? Is this a short term or long term fix? Do you think the data is going to magically spread over the two partitions? I'm confused.