Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:14:17 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Marcelo Maraboli <marcelo.maraboli@usm.cl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pwd.db too big for / partition Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070319150820.025805e8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <45FEA42B.5040300@usm.cl> References: <20070311200829.31802.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <0AC225E6-E55D-4C20-9A00-2EDD95985848@shire.net> <20070311165028.S44863@simone.iecc.com> <45F57936.3030601@usm.cl> <45FEA42B.5040300@usm.cl>
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I have moved my root partition on one server. I copied the entire=20
partition to a new partition on a different drive using cpio as I wanted=20
/dev moved too. At the time this was running 4.x.
After moving the root partition I rebooted and made sure the new partition=
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was still fine. Then I changed both /etc/fstab files to mount the new=20
root, and gave the old root a new mount point.
On the root of the old root I added a boot.config file to tell the loader=
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the correct drive and slice to boot from.
After another reboot, I was using the new root partition. I keep the old=
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one there for the boot.config. It like your's is too small do much else=20
with given the huge drives we install these days.
As for your old root, you should try to clear any space you can. I would=
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look for any log files you can purge, etc, to get some working space.
-Derek
At 09:54 AM 3/19/2007, Marcelo Maraboli wrote:
>Hi
>
>my / partition has only 73.196 Mbytes available and since I
>have 22.000 users, I now cannot change anyone=B4s password..
>
>root@server:~$ passwd marcelo.maraboli
>Changing local password for marcelo.maraboli
>New Password:
>Retype New Password:
>
>/: write failed, filesystem is full
>pwd_mkdb: write old: No space left on device
>passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
>
>How can I rezise the "/" partition or move the spwb.db
>and pwd.db files to another partition ?? (each of them is 44 Mbytes)
>
>thanks.
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