Hello All,

I have website hosted on fasthost dedicated server (ubuntu) of 250GB.
Now server is out of space.I have to increase server capacity to get website running.

I have one another fasthost vitual (CentOS) server of 400GB.
Fasthost have asked us to use this virtual server in website's hosting server.

Do i need to mount?
Do i need to repartition?

I am not sure how to increase hosting capacity as i am not that much aware of linux.
So all server guys please help me out..

Then please set aside time to work with it and get acquainted to the level an admin would need.


I'd say you first need to find out *why* it ran out of space. Looking ahead and planning based on expected system requirements is important. Else you risk moving systems for no good reason, which is basically like treating symptoms and not the cause. So is it system and daemon logs not being rotated? Or is it say the database growing faster than expected? Or has somebody uploaded more or larger files than expected?


After you have found out the cause you can assess if the file system layout matches your requirements. If it doesn't then you could opt for repartitioning or splitting services across machines. For instance you could make the 250GB machine act as a caching web server and the 400GB one as database machine.

Hi

I think this is server issue, but i thought there are more friends here to help me out.

I have website hosted on fast host dedicated server of 250GB.
Now server is out of space.I have to increase server capacity to get website running.

I have one another fast host virtual server of 400GB.
Fast host have asked us to use this virtual server in website's hosting server.



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Hmmm, it seems like vibhadevit and nithra have suspiciously similar problems. Do you two know one another, by any chance?

The 'why' question, asked by unSpawn is very important here; 250G is already a fair amount of space, and you can do quite a lot in that amount of space. Maybe, if this situation (exhausting 250G) has developed over 10 years, and you know that there are particular reasons that the space consumed gradually increases year-by-year, that is normal. But I don't get the impression that it has taken 10 years, and if there are particular reasons for a high consumption of space (like you are storing media files for lots of users, or some of your users are using your services in ways that had not been anticipated), you don't mention them, and not mentioning something significant like that wouldn't be the best way to get a good answer.

Again, there is a possible good approach in the unSpawn post, but it would be really difficult to do much more than guess with this level of information.

What? You will have partitions already mounted. You should know that. It is unclear why or what you are now intending to mount to change the situation.

A clear answer will not come until you are able to tell what is happening to the existing mounts. You should know how to do this.

Wow. By capacity, you mean disk capacity? And, you are doing this rather than finding out what had gone wrong, initially? So, presumably, you realise that it would likely only be a short-term measure (how fast did you get through 250G of disk space? what would that imply about the extra time that it would give you if you had an extra 150G of disk space?).

In principle, you could install whatever you had on your 250 G server on your 400G server and run the web site from there. But, as I point out above, expect it to go wrong shortly afterwards, unless you find the root cause and fix it. Well, I guess you could go and pay fasthosts for a yet bigger server, for when that 400G disk is all used up...

Only one of you (nithra) has that link to 'Managed Network Services'; do they have anything to do with this issue? You know, an organisation like that, they ought to have the know-how to sort this kind of issue out.

Hi

While compiling some new software, I received an error mesage saying that it was unable to create /tmp/name because there was no space left. I deleted some large log files in the /root area, then was able to compile without a problem. This concerns me because I am only using 3.4 GB on a 40GB hard drive.

Is there a space limit to particular directories?
Can you think of any other reason why I would run out of space when I am under 10% full?
How can I confirm that I actually have a 40GB hard drive?

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Start with these cmds

NB: that's a lowercase L for the fdisk param