Re: [cobalt-users] Root partition fills up under heavy load..

[Michael <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

THANK YOU!!!

This was a God send! To make it even easier for those of you who want to do this (Everyone on a Raq4 I suspect) here is an actual copy of my success story with this message:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               743466    667334     76132  90% /
/dev/hda3               198601     55519    143082  28% /var
/dev/hda4             17671528    788716  16882812   4% /home
[root /root]# cd /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/report/
[root report]# mkdir /home/webdata 
[root report]# mv web.cache /home/webdata 
[root report]# mv web.cache.new /home/webdata 
[root report]# mv web.cache.stats /home/webdata 
mv: web.cache.stats: No such file or directory
[root report]# ln -s /home/webdata/web.cache web.cache 
[root report]# ln -s /home/webdata/web.cache.new web.cache.new 
[root report]# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               743466    498694    244772  67% /
/dev/hda3               198601     55519    143082  28% /var
/dev/hda4             17671528    957837  16713691   5% /home
[root report]# 


Once again, thanks!



At 09:30 AM 7/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>4WebSpace just posted a warning about this problem.
>http://www.4webspace.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=429
>
>
>Excerpts:
>
>Administrators should be aware of a problem that we've been experiencing with raqs with heavy load. The root partition likes to fill up with log files and things of that nature and the process is accelerated when people install pkgs and move files to the /usr directory. ...
>
>You can diagnose the problem by logging into the command line on your raq and typing df. This will show you the amount of space used by the "/" partition. If it is over 80% then you will have to take a few steps:
>1) Type "locate web.cache" - this will find the web files that cobalt has been using to generate its online log data. One of the recent patches generates these files and they can become quite large. We are working with Cobalt to resolve this, but for now, we suggest moving each file to another directory on the /home partition and doing a symlink to it....
>
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