Re: [cobalt-developers] Vol / out of space

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Thomas wrote:

 |Using lynx to download a CD image of about 298MB
 |I started gettting email messages that VOL / was almost out of space.
 |But I started lynx in /home/sites/site1...

Use wget or curl to download stuff.. it's a lot lot easier.

 |Why would lynx be using anything on / and not in /tmp which is symlinked to
 |/home/tmp?

normally lynx creates a hidden file in your current directory.. and when
you save it copies it to the name you choose... and deletes the hidden
file! (which means you 2x times the size of your download!)

 |This is bad! Why is / so small if this is common, and what can we do to
 |offload some directories to /home

It is recommended to keep / partition small on *nix machines

 |/dev/md1                743371    587317    156054  79% /
 |but the CD didnt get moved over to the directory...
 |Can some kind person point out what the heck I am missing?

run du -sb on each dir under / (excluding the mount points) and see if any
directory is occupying too much of space.

you can move that directory to any partition with space make a sym-link to
the to the new location

Kingsly