Craig White wrote: > my /usr partition is almost completely filled up and it's bothering > me. There's no "almost" there :) Welcome to the club - I've just completed a nightmare upgrade from 6.2 to 8.0 where /usr and / both ran out of space leaving RPM's database incomplete and inconsistant, and packages half installed. RedHat developers - please PLEASE work on the upgrade scripts. They stink :) > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda9 4569824 1032864 3304824 24% / > /dev/hda1 132207 25532 99849 21% /boot > /dev/hda6 10325748 8586104 1215124 88% /home > /dev/hda7 3099260 3090492 0 100% /usr > /dev/hda5 10325748 900456 8900772 10% /var Problem is, it's out of space already. I would free up some space manually - I suggest removing /usr/share/doc/??? of your picking - they can always be reinstalled later. Your distribution of partitions doesn't look like you have much more space to really be of use. You might take some of /var, but that will leave less space for email, logs and other data your system might be using depending on what services you have running. A more direct approach is to get a new harddrive. To move a given partition, create and mount the new empty partition. Turn your system in to "single", and copy using "cp -av /oldmount /mnt/newpartition" - sit back and wait. Verify that the new partition got all the data, and then change /etc/fstab to mount the new partition instead of the old. HINT - save the old fstab if you're not sure of what you're doing. Worst case, boot on the RH8 boot cd in recovery mode, do a chroot /mnt/sysimage and copy the old /etc/fstab back. Your initial problem without using a new harddrive will be resizing the existing partitons. Using parted that is possible - but I wouldn't really go there without a full backup of everything. Playing with partitions is not easy. What's on /dev/hda8? It seems to be missing - anyway, without a fdisk -l /dev/hda it's a little hard to say how difficault moving partitions around will be. They basicly have to be bordering to eachother in order for removing space from one being a benefit to another partition. In severe cases, a full backup - full repartition - and then restoring is much easier than anything else. Another way of getting space is to DEINSTALL some software :) Take a peek at the rpm -qa list. You probably have lots of packages that are no longer needed from older installations. Start removing what you don't need. Windows-managers that you never user are good candidates, fonts and old (no longer working) utilities. I ran this little script (it takes a while): for a in `rpm -qa` do echo ====== $a >> /tmp/rpmverify rpm --verify $a >> /tmp/rpmverify done Look for errors and missing files - I had a bungle .... I used the list to indentify packages that needed to be reinstalled and packages that could be removed. Any package with library errors can be removed immediately. Packages using /usr/doc are way old too - I took those out of commision too. Look at the packages that takes up lots of space. Do you really need 2 or 3 different browsers? Are you using both koffice and open-office? Are you using perl and most of the other programming utils you might have installed? Removing apache will help too - all huge packages. Regards Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
