[vox-tech] Resizing Root Partition

[Tim Riley]

Richard Crawford wrote:

> I'm trying to install Java onto my server at home so that I can start
> mucking around with JSP and Tomcat.  Unfortunately, the Java SDK refuses
> to install, telling me that I don't have enough disk space.  I ran df to
> get the disk usage, and this is what I get:
>
> root@hagrid:~/
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             486M  462M  4.0K 100% /
> /dev/hda6              25G  6.2G   17G  27% /home
> none                  125M     0  124M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda7              99M  4.1M   89M   5% /tmp
> /dev/hda2             4.8G  1.5G  3.1G  32% /usr
> /dev/hda3             494M  167M  301M  36% /var
>
> My partition map looks like this:
>
> root@hagrid:~/
> # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1        64    514048+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            65       701   5116702+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3           702       766    522112+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           767      4111  26868712+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           767       831    522081   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6           832      4098  26242146   83  Linux
> /dev/hda7          4099      4111    104391   83  Linux
>
> In this case, I wonder if it's best to resize the root partition, or to go
> in and wipe out a bunch of files.  Thoughts?  Suggestions?

I'm not a Sys-admin -- just a long-time user -- but I like this partition
mapping
because /usr, /tmp, and /var are on their own partitions. I see there's plenty
of
room in /usr, but / (root) is filled up (yuck).

Before doing any major surgery, I would find out why root is filled up --
you've allocated almost a half-gig to it. If it's a just a handful of big
files
or a single big directory, then I would move them to /usr and then add a link
pointer
to them from / (root).

If you want to do minor surgery, I would suggest "ext2resize." I successfully
used it to expand a partition, but it takes careful understanding of the
relationship
between blocks and cylinders.

>
>
> Sliante,
> Richard S. Crawford
>
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