Re: /home out of space

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:39:33 -0800, PHead wrote:

> / and /usr are both on hda1 (its a total of 5GB in size) Swap space is
> 1GB on hda5. Obviously the hard drive is small. But like I was
> seeing, it has to be a log file filling up too quickly.

I put /var on a separate partition so that logfiles aren't choking up
other partitions when something goes nuts.

> I dont use root much at all, other than when needed. The out of space
> partition was /home (hda6), not /root which is on hda1.

that wasn't the question. The previous response worried why /root
(root's home) was so full. You meant, though, /.

> Youd think that someone would write something like this that worked, and
> was no more dangerous to use than any command line utility. Anyways,
> thanks for the info.

I don't know. Changing partitions has always been a serious matter.
Maybe with a striped filesystem it would be better, but I had one of
those once (rs6000), and was unimpressed with the functionality.

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