Thanks All

I will try this latter today after work

Many thanks

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: / partition full


> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mikevl wrote:
> 
> > I can somebody please help me out with this.?
> > 
> > My root partition seems to be full but I cannot find the files which
> > fill it up.
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1             980M  980M     0 100% /
> > /dev/hdb1              73G   43G   26G  62% /mnt/Windows
> > none                  250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hda3              14G  1.5G   12G  11% /usr
> > /dev/hda2              19G  5.1G   13G  28% /var
> > 
> You should probably re-think your partitioning setup.  Unless you are 
> setting up a web hosting machine with all the web pages in /var, 19G is 
> way too large for the /var partition.  14G is a also a bit large for 
> /usr.  Depending on how you plan on using the system, I would consider 
> using something like parted to shrink /usr to somewhare between 2G and 
> 4G, and use the freed up space to create a /home partition.  moving 
> /home to its own partition should free up a fair amount of space on /.  
> You might also want to trim 1 or 2G off of /var, and create a /tmp 
> partition.
> 
> If you deside to make the changes, and do not know how to move things to 
> new partitions, this has been covered on the list before.  If you can 
> not find it in the archives, then ask about the steps you don't 
> understand.
> 
> Mikkel
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