HDD question

[Darin Perusich]

you can't use hard links for directory or to cross filesystem boundries, 
you must use soft links in these cases..

before you go moving /var you might want to investigate what is filling 
up your filesystem? do this as root.

	cd /
	du -ks * |sort -n

this will give you a recursive listing of which directories are the big 
offender. once you have your list do into the biggest directories are do 
the 'du -ks * |sort -n' again. from here you can either continue 
drilling down or start removing/compressing/wiping files, etc.

if you are going to move /var this SHOULD be done in single user mode 
with syslog and klogd turned off! syslog doesn't like it when you move 
active log files out of it's way when it's running. it tends to continue 
writing to the filesystem but thru the old inode.

an quick way to wipe your log files:

	cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages

Eric R. Benoit wrote:
> would it matter if it was a hard or soft link ...not too sure what
> they are, but that is why I am asking?  Same problem here, I just
> overfilled my log files.
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
>> a symbolic link would do the trick. You could move all your /var
>> for instance to somewhere under your /home, then create a symbolic
>> link to it under /. Be very careful     !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> 
>> frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> When I partioned the 20GB hdd on my notebook, I assigned 512MB
>>> for the swap (recommended), 13GB for /home and 5GB for /. I think
>>> that the root partition may be full up because I can't update
>>> anything through synaptic. Is there a way to dynamically reassign
>>> hdd space?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Frank
>>> 
>>> Cybersource Rocks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com