> Hello: > > I had a nicely working system with > hda1 1 gig / > hda2 48M swap > hda3 1 gig formatted space as /extra > hda4 extended > hda5 2 gigs formatted space unmounted > > The root partition was getting used up so > I tried to put /usr on hda3 using > 'cp -dpRv * /extra' and it appears it went > successfully.
Note that that command also copyies everything that used to be in /extra to /extra/extra -- so your new /extra may be fuller than your original / (hda1). > I changed the original /usr > to /usr1 and then /extra to /usr. Now I have > two problems: > > 1. xdm won't let me log in as anything but root > 2. hda1 partition now shows 0 MB available and > 100 percent usage. du shows the same amount > of space being used in /usr and the copied > partition. Every ext2 partition has some extra space reserved for root. So, if nobody but root can login, that usually meens the partition really _is_ full, except for that little (5% usually, configurable) bit of space reserved for root. > Changing back to the original /usr doesn't solve > either problem. > You didn't tell us how much space was used on the original / partition. The way I guess now, is that both partitions were just about to be completely full anyway, and by some coincidence the moment when both (or rather the original /, and thus also /extra, due to the copy command) filled up coincided with the moment when you decided to start doing something about those space-problems, i.e. all the actions you describe above. > Sure could use a pointer or two while I look for > my own solution that could make the problem much > worse. Well, you could try to free up some space :). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
