Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sun, August 26, 2007 02:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
 

> Still, it was late and I was panicking rather unnecessarily. After
> sleeping on it, I am tending to the view they must be from that tinydns
> episode. I'm going to remove them on that assumption and see what
> happens. I never persuaded tinydns to run, so it is no loss.

Since tinydns doesn't appear to be a debian package, you got bitten by allowing a non-debian-package to use anything other than /home/, /usr/local/, /var/local/, and /etc/.

>
> >
> > If you're using LVM, do you have any free space?
> [...]
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso% Montato su
> /dev/mapper/Debian-root
> 259M 165M 81M 68% /
> /dev/hda1 228M 34M 182M 16% /boot
> /dev/mapper/Debian-home
> 9,3G 4,6G 4,2G 53% /home
> /dev/mapper/Debian-tmp
> 368M 11M 337M 4% /tmp
> /dev/mapper/Debian-usr
> 4,7G 3,5G 1,1G 78% /usr
> /dev/mapper/Debian-var
> 2,9G 901M 1,8G 33% /var

I don't see anything here to panic over. If you want to give yourself some more room in /, you could put /tmp on tmpfs as long as you have enough swap already. Then you could delete the LV tmp and reallocate its space to /. Also, your /boot is too big but that's more difficult to change; not impossible.  

> # pvdisplay
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/hda6
> VG Name Debian

> Free PE 0
 

> I kept the second disk for media -- photographs mainly --, but it looks
> as though I shall have to take a part of it in order to decant some
> other directory into it.
>

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If you don't need to access that media drive from other OSs, you can incorporate it into the main LVM system. Assuming that those photographs are meant to be viewed by multiple users, you could put the directory under home.

However, I don't see that your setup needs any tweaking right now. / is at 68% with 81 MB free. The only thing that should take up a lot of additional room there would be kernel modules for another kernel. I'm guessing that you have two kernels installed; before you install another, remove the oldest one.

Doug.

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