I managed to fill my / partition on knoppmyth a couple of times.<br><br>If the box will boot, then you can use du -f to check for for the directories taking most space.<br><br>A couple of times, I have managed to gain space by moving the files in /var/lib/mysql to the /myth partition ( with mysql stopped of course) and then moving them back.
<br><br>Otherwise it's a case of using a rescue disk and mounting the partition so you can delete files. I once had to backup all my files and do a complete install from scratch to gain a bigger root partition. To my mind knoppmyth still does not offer nearly enough on an automatic install.
<br><br>regards<br><br>gary<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yan Seiner</b> <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Kokor Hekkus wrote:<br>> I think I was paying with interest for my year without problems<br>> because at the same time my ISP's link went down, and I couldn't<br>> consult wiki or forums for some advice. I was also struck with
<br>> overwhelming stupidity combined with being very tired (it was around<br>> 2AM) and impatient so I thought what the hell I'll just delete<br>> everything in my /var/log dir and see what happens. Doing that I was
<br>> able to get only 70MB of free space so I guess problem was not in<br>> logs.<br><br>Deleting the log files shouldn't cause any great problems. You may have<br>to create some directories, but most logging is done (or should be done)
<br>by syslog, which should create any missing files and dirs<br>automagically. (I have not actually tried this, mind you. But<br>typically logging just sort of happens.)<br><br>Have you tried restarting the machine? Any specific problems?
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