OK OK OK I give up I can't read.
But on another note...
I recently installed a new 60 gig hard drive. I did this to overcome a situation where I was rapidly running out of space through loading up /home. The new drive is ext3 like the old one. The / drive is 38 gigs, there are three partitions, boot, swap and root. I installed hdc and formatted it as ext3 all one partition, so /dev/hdc1
I copied all of /home to the new drive, then mounted it as /home. This works ok and gives me 30 gigs of new space. I want to release the space taken up by the old /home directory, so I commented out the mount line in fstab and rebooted, regaining access to the old /home. I used nautilus as root and navigated to the /home directory and deleted all the contents. The directory now shows up as empty, but df shows the space still in use. I'd like to get that cleared up, the space would be worthwhile and the system runs like a dog with 87% of the filesystem full.
I tried to set the reboot count to 400 so as to trigger a fsck on the next reboot, but that hasn't changed anything.
Ideas?
Dave
Dave, You've forgotten to clean out the old /home directory before you mounted the new one over it. Even though your old /home directory, on your / drive, is no longer in use it still has all those files taking up space.
umount new /home and remount it as /mnt mount old /home and copy your files to /mnt delete files in old /home mount new /home
-gc
--- Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
OK OK OK I give up I can't read.
But on another note...
I recently installed a new 60 gig hard drive. I did this to overcome a situation where I was rapidly running out of space through loading up /home. The new drive is ext3 like the old one. The / drive is 38 gigs, there are three partitions, boot, swap and root. I installed hdc and formatted it as ext3 all one partition, so /dev/hdc1
I copied all of /home to the new drive, then mounted it as /home. This works ok and gives me 30 gigs of new space. I want to release the space taken up by the old /home directory, so I commented out the mount line in fstab and rebooted, regaining access to the old /home. I used nautilus as root and navigated to the /home directory and deleted all the contents. The directory now shows up as empty, but df shows the space still in use. I'd like to get that cleared up, the space would be worthwhile and the system runs like a dog with 87% of the filesystem full.
I tried to set the reboot count to 400 so as to trigger a fsck on the next reboot, but that hasn't changed anything.
Ideas?
Dave
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--- Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
OK OK OK I give up I can't read.
But on another note...
I recently installed a new 60 gig hard drive. I did this to overcome a situation where I was rapidly running out of space through loading up /home. The new drive is ext3 like the old one. The / drive is 38 gigs, there are three partitions, boot, swap and root. I installed hdc and formatted it as ext3 all one partition, so /dev/hdc1
I copied all of /home to the new drive, then mounted it as /home. This works ok and gives me 30 gigs of new space. I want to release the space taken up by the old /home directory, so I commented out the mount line in fstab and rebooted, regaining access to the old /home. I used nautilus as root and navigated to the /home directory and deleted all the contents. The directory now shows up as empty, but df shows the space still in use. I'd like to get that cleared up, the space would be worthwhile and the system runs like a dog with 87% of the filesystem full.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:31:18PM -0700, George Crum wrote:
Dave, You've forgotten to clean out the old /home directory before you mounted the new one over it. Even though your old /home directory, on your / drive, is no longer in use it still has all those files taking up space.
umount new /home and remount it as /mnt mount old /home and copy your files to /mnt delete files in old /home mount new /home
reboot, but that hasn't changed anything. Ideas?
Given the confusion that seems to be going on do something like this: mkdir /newhome Add an fstab line something like this for the new disk.
/dev/hdb1 /newhome ext3 defaults 1 2
Now make sure that /home and /newhome are as expected. i.e. make sure you have not removed files you do not have copies of.
Next swap the rename the old /home dir to /oldhome or some such thing. i.e. edit fstab to mount the old home space as /oldhome and the new as /newhome.
i.e. do not mount /home as /home yet. Let it be an empty dir or mount point. Just mount /oldhome and /newhome
If you have fstab lines like this you may find that you can be confused about the physical device under things.
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
The above is important because a partition label can cause confusion.
You can orient yourself with tricks like "df ."
$ cd /home $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 10713248 247936 9921096 3% /home
When you have /oldhome and /newhome clearly identified and labeled then fix things so that /newhome is /home. Check and verify... perhaps with:
$ diff -d /home /oldhome
When all is right in /home remove /oldhome you can recover the space. If it is an isolated partition removing the files will not 'add space' to /.
If you have multiple users. You can consider keeping the /oldhome partition as say /homeA and move some users there. I happen to have collected a lot of stuff in my 'src' dir. In the past I have made a link to another partition for bloat stuff like that. Same for system documentation... "df -s /* " might give you a good choice of stuff to move. Recall that some things are best located in the / files system.
The goal of the above is to be cautious so the recovery CD lets you recover by simply undoing a single step.
Dave Stevens wrote:
I recently installed a new 60 gig hard drive. I did this to overcome a situation where I was rapidly running out of space through loading up /home. The new drive is ext3 like the old one. The / drive is 38 gigs, there are three partitions, boot, swap and root. I installed hdc and formatted it as ext3 all one partition, so /dev/hdc1
I copied all of /home to the new drive, then mounted it as /home. This works ok and gives me 30 gigs of new space. I want to release the space taken up by the old /home directory, so I commented out the mount line in fstab and rebooted, regaining access to the old /home. I used nautilus as root and navigated to the /home directory and deleted all the contents. The directory now shows up as empty, but df shows the space still in use. I'd like to get that cleared up, the space would be worthwhile and the system runs like a dog with 87% of the filesystem full.
I tried to set the reboot count to 400 so as to trigger a fsck on the next reboot, but that hasn't changed anything.
Ideas?
Is the `old' home directory, the one you want to empty, its own partition? If so, how about just running newfs on it. That will certainly clear it out.
If it isn't its own partition, why not use `rm -rf' on the directory you want to delete (making certain of what you are deleting first of course).
I don't use nautilus, but doesn't it move items into a trash folder?
Can you do a `du -hs' on the directory in question?
- Mike
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