Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:03:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Brandon Peyton <varian@1bigred.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change disk size.. Message-ID: <20010701135943.H28633-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <JDEDKHHOCINPGOEPLBJIMEIBCNAA.varian@1bigred.com>
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Brandon Peyton wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help here. Obviously I've got a problem as I can hardly get > anything to work now that my / is full. > > I cannot afford to reformat as this is runs my mailserver/dns/webserver/etc. > My issue comes down to how can I create more room in my root directory. Its > clear I made a fatal mistake by only allowing 50M. > > What I am trying to figure out is how to add capacity to / without loosing > my files. I would like to simply reformat and change it which would take a > matter of minutes but I cannot. I would like to have at least 500M or a gig > as my /. > > What do you think? What is the best way to do this without loosing data. (I > do not want to use any kind of partition magic programs as I have had > nothing but failure from them). > > Thanks > brandon > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 48M 47M -2.2M 105% / > /dev/ad0s1f 5.7G 408M 4.8G 8% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19M 3.2M 15M 18% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc Hi Brandon, Your best bet would be to figure out what is filling up root. The most likely culprits are /root or /tmp and du -h /root du -h /tmp will let you know if this is the case or not. If the culprit is /root, get rid of what you don't need and don't surf, etc. as the superuser. If it's /tmp, use MFS instead. AFAIK, Partition Magic will see your FreeBSD partitions but won't let you resize them. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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