SUMMARY - Out of Disk Space v.01

From: Daniel Kim (daniel.kim@prudential.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 08:44:29 CDT


[Changes: Proper subject and step 5 should be to remove /opt.tmp]

> Ok, my problem was my partition was at 98% and I couldn't install any
> additional software because it was full. I had a /space partition sitting
> there with plenty of space, but couldn't figure out how to free up my /
> partition and move it to /space.
>
> The solution was actually pretty simple, in retrospect [as it always is
> ;-]
>
> 1) Copy a directory tree to the /space partition. I choosed /opt because
> it was the largest. I did this by doing: tar cf - . | (cd /space/opt;
> tar xf -) while I was in the /opt directory. This copied all my opt stuff
> to /space/opt
> 2) mv /opt /opt.tmp
> 3) ln -s /space/opt /opt
> 4) Reboot and make sure everything still worked.
> 5) If everything works, rm -r /opt.tmp
>
> For me, that brought my utilization down to 50%!
>
> Special thanks to Erin and everyone else that was kind enough to give me
> options and alternatives!
>
> Frank
>



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