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Help! Disk space error
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Sidney Shapiro wrote: > I am not sure what is causing this problem, when I erased a bunch of log > and temp files stored under / I did manage to free up some space. If I > was to add another hard drive, would it be a problem to get it working > with the RAID5 the other drives are on? I would rather take some free > space (if possible) from somewhere else and add it to /. > > Sid > > > [root at root]# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 372M 95M 258M 27% / > /dev/hda1 45M 8.7M 34M 21% /boot > /dev/md0 147G 9.3G 130G 7% /home > none 283M 0 282M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda3 8.6G 1.7G 6.5G 21% /usr > /dev/hda7 26G 1.7G 23G 7% /var Assuming hda6 and hda7 are sequential, partition magic should be able to expand / and shrink /var. Not sure which other tool can, so unless you own partition magic 6 or higher... Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:31:30AM -0400, Sidney Shapiro wrote: > Youre right, I cant see how the numbers add up. All I deleted was two > unneeded files in / and a bunch of old log files... One of those files in / may have been huge, or those logs added up to a lot. > This is what I get now: > > [root at root]# du -sh * > 1.1M Desktop > 31k Mail > 27k PLSK.00015231.0000.sh > 4.0k anaconda-ks.cfg > 727k easypsa > 5.3M image > 2.0k index.html > 22k install.log > 0 install.log.syslog > 3.0k mail > 1.0k nsmail That is in /root not / Do du -shx /* > [root at root]# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 372M 95M 258M 27% / Looks better at least. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:22:46AM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote: > Something doesn't add up. In your previous message, df showed 354M/372M > available on / but here it seems like only 15.9M is used. Did you free > 338.1M of logs? If so, then what's the problem? > > I've been told fips is the program to use for resizing partitions, but I > haven't used it yet. Be warned; messing with partitions is a great way > to lose data. Fips is for FAT partitions only. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:10:39AM -0400, Sidney Shapiro wrote: > I erased most of the log files I did not need, and cleaned up some files > which were sitting in root as well. When I type du -shx /* this is what > I got: [root at root]# du -shx /* > 5.8M /bin > 4.7M /boot > 270k /dev > 5.1M /etc So which entry contained that 300MB? /root? /tmp? That obviously can't be the entire list > Is there a way to resize my partition? parted might (but is pretty hard to use/understand). Partition magic version 6 and above can resize them too I believe. Neither is going to touch the MD drive. Resizing MD drives is much trickier. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:33, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Not sure which other tool can, so unless you own partition magic 6 or > higher... Doesn't 'parted' have (experimental) support for partition resize. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sidney Shapiro wrote: > I am just concerned about running out of space again and having all my > programs go down (as was the case of my web mail and PHP). If it's not > possible to increase the size, its not a big deal, Ill just have to keep > an eye on the size of /. If you link /tmp to /var/tmp (see my last mail for details) then new files in /tmp will appear in /var/tmp (where you have lots of space). The risk of / filling again would be greatly reduced. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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http:--www.e-laws.gov.on.ca:81- (fwd)
by fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On August 27, 2003 12:23 pm, Max Blanco wrote: > I was looking for the Ontario government law which deals with Deadstock > Disposal, and found to my dismay that the government of Ontario > provides laws in a format readable only to Microsoft users. Not sure if we're looking at the same thing, I can read this just fine: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Statutes/English/90d03_e.htm A .doc is also provided (see http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/download2_E.asp?lang=en&docFile=Statutes/Englis…) Although .doc might be a Microsoft format it generally isn't that difficult for non-Microsoft users to read. I've been able to read .doc's on Linux for a long time. As far as I remember there was a free version of Wordperfect that could read it just fine (at that time) probably over 6 years ago, it might have run under iBCS but it still ran. Currently you have loads of options to choose from, these are the ones that I have installed: - abiword - kword - openoffice.org - strings (ok not too practival) - wv (converts directly to pdf, dvi, html, and more) If the .doc is what you find objectionable what is your preference, pdf? If they went with pdf then they would almost certainly run out and pay the big bucks to Adobe for PDF generation software, we might prefer Adobe over MS but what's the win. When 90% of us (if you believe the statistics) have wordview and the rest of us have options as I mentioned above I don't see a problem ... especially since they are providing html (I assume that you didn't notice it). -- Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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European Linuxers protest law on software patents
by plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/BigDemo27aug -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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http:--www.e-laws.gov.on.ca:81- (fwd)
by emir-rdkfGonbjUTTQjIoRn/dzw＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On 27/08/2003 12:59, Henry Spencer wrote: > I wrote: > >>do a fair job of reading Microsoft flies. > > > Oops, for "flies" read "files"... :-) Freudian slip, if there ever was one ;) -- Emir. "The rancorous Supreme Court pronouncement on the 2000 Presidential election ought to remind everyone that the US' legal system is at best a lottery, and at worst, deeply swayed by human vices." -- Andrew Orlowski -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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http:--www.e-laws.gov.on.ca:81- (fwd)
by henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg＠public.gmane.org 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

I wrote: > do a fair job of reading Microsoft flies. Oops, for "flies" read "files"... :-) Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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