Re: [cobalt-developers] expanding filesystem size

["Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi
>
> I have a RAQ4 with a 40GB drive it. I run PHP 4.1.2-2 (thanks for
everyones help!) and MYSQL and the usual modules.
>
> The / partition was set to 920mb and is showing severe errors as it has
less than 6% free space.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any emp files around, the mal spool is fairly
light and the tmp directory is lightly used.
>
> 1. Is there any other temp files I can look for and delete?
> 2. How do I increase the size of /
>
>
> Kind regards
> Jamie Rossi
>

Hi, before you start doing that, it might be better to figure out what's
eating up all the space.  I remember that when I first installed webalizer
it had a terrible problem of eating up disk space, so I had to make some
changes to that.

The best way to find out where your free space is going, do this as root:
 du -x --max-depth=1 /
You'll get output similar to:

12      /lost+found
5474    /etc
8638    /bin
1673    /boot
27048   /lib
3       /mnt
5195    /root
6230    /sbin
626658  /usr
80      /dev
2381    /share
14      /nsr
316     /man
89      /include
684495  /

You'll want to look through there and figure out where the space is being
used, so you might want to run (using the output from above as an example):
du -x --max-depth=1 /usr

Once you find out where your disk hog is, you can more easily fix it.  For
example, if java is the culprit, you can create a folder called /home/java
and then make a link so that /usr/java -> /home/java then you'll have more
space in /usr.

I hope this helps, if not, the above information will make trouble shooting
a lot easier.

Matt Nuzum