[Techtalk] Re: Making room for Oracle

[Tim White]

The command 'df -k' will show you something like the following:


Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              5528780   3733616   1514312  72% /
/dev/hda1                51206      8848     39714  19% /boot

Which tells me that my /dev/hda2 partition is mounted under the /
directory and the /dev/hda1 partition is mounted under the /boot
partition.

This command also shows that I have 1514312KBytes or 1.5Gbytes of space
Available.

Other partitions will be used for 'swap' space as well. In my case that
is the /dev/hda3 partition - which can be shown by the 'swapon -s'
command, giving output like:

Filename			Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/hda3                       partition	196552	130132	-1

All of the mounting instructions that your system will use to mount
partitions at boot time are contained in the file /etc/fstab.

This will list the partition, where it is mounted, file system type and
then options. Unfortunately RedHat seems to now list the partition in
this file by the partition label rather than the actual device name.

If you run out of room in a partition you have a couple of options.

1) Re-install and don't let the installation decide on the partitioning
scheme.
2) Move files from an under-utilised partition into a temporary space.
Unmount the under-utilised partition and remount it where it can be of
more use. Copy the files back to their original directory (which is now
actually on a different partition).
3) buy another disk
4) use symbolic links to make a link from a directory in an
under-utilised partition to the directory that you want.


I hope this helps.

Tim White



On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 12:26, Arashi wrote:
> >From Telsa:
> > I don't have the original mail to hand now. But I wonder whether
> > you have lots of space but it is split up between a bunch of 
> > different partitions. I have met this problem before.
> 
> I think this is what's happened - maybe.  Sorry, I can't explain this
> very well because I don't know much about partitions and directories.
>  My hard disk has been cut up into /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2... /dev/hda7.
>  Are those directories or partitions?  My /home is located on hda6. 
> How can I find out what the others are for?
> 
> > > If you want to try and find some more space without reinstalling,
> > >you can look for big packages that you don't use. Run something 
> > >like rpm -qa --queryformat "%10{SIZE} %20{NAME}\n" | sort -rn
> > > Wow! I would add "| less" or " > filename" at the end. Without
> > this, unless you have a massive scrollback, the real biggies will
> > scroll off the top of the screen and out of scrollback.
> 
> I'll try that out as soon as I get home.
> Thanks Again
> 
> Berenice
> 
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