[vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

[Jay Strauss]

that worked, I deleted some of the old 2.6.8 libs and my /root/.mozilla 
and was able to install the new kernel.

Now I guess I'm going to have to rearrange things to get more space

Jay
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Jay Strauss (me at heyjay.com):
> 
> 
>>I'm out of space on /.  and the install is trying to write to /lib
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Will moving the contents of lib somewhere else, like /usr/mylib and soft 
>>linking /lib->/usr/mylib work as a workaround?  Will my machine be able 
>>to boot correctly?
> 
> 
> I see no reason why not -- but personally I'd find some other
> (long-term) solution.
> 
> Certain trees are part of the root filesystem for a very good reason,
> and /lib is one of them.  The contents are libraries too critical to
> system booting, maintenance, and recovery to be included in /usr/lib:
> They're the ones you need available even if /usr cannot be mounted at
> all.
> 
> Things that might more reasonably be moved off the root filesystem
> include /boot, /home, /opt, /usr, and /var.
> 
> In your shoes I might move /lib off the root filesystem _briefly_ --
> just long enough to give me enough free space on the root filesystem to
> craft a better long-term solution.  (By preference, I would do that from
> a bootable maintenance disk such as an LNX-BBC, Tom's Root-Boot, or
> Knoppix disk.)  
> 
> You may also find the following Perl script ("largest20") useful, in
> getting you some breathing room:  It finds and lists the biggest 20
> files in the current directory or any subdirectory -- and can be
> re-found as http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/utilities-general/largest20:
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # You can alternatively just do:  
> # find . -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 ls -l | sort -rn +4 | head -20
> use File::Find;
> @ARGV = $ENV{ PWD } unless @ARGV;
> find ( sub { $size{ $File::Find::name } = -s if -f; }, @ARGV );
> @sorted = sort { $size{ $b } <=> $size{ $a } } keys %size;
> splice @sorted, 20 if @sorted > 20;
> printf "%10d %s\n", $size{$_}, $_ for @sorted
> 
> 
> If you can't find a way to reduce the contents of / down to comfortable
> levels, I would strongly urge repartitioning your system -- since
> running out of space on / is a serious problem.  Use one of the
> aforementioned maintenance boot disks, then use one of the methods
> detailed in "Copying Directory Trees" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Admin
> to copy the contents of each filesystem to be re-created over to a
> second system on your LAN.  Then, umount, use fdisk/cfdisk, mkfs.*, and
> copy the contents back.
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