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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:22:04 +0100 From: Jacopo Sadoleto <[email protected]> To: TAG <[email protected]> To: ben at linuxgazette.net Subject: 2-Cent TipBen I would like to submit a tip, it it fails miserably off the mark, please feel free to bin-it...
Sometimes upgrading an Linux distro to a recent version, yields an "No space left on device" (usually /var); For those not willing to use a tool to create, resize, grow a partition, a simple artifice will do the trick:
CTRL-ALT-F2 # mv /var /home/user/? <== or wherever space suffice # cd / # ls -s /home/user/var . CTRL-ALT-F7
Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]
Hi all
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 06:30, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:22:04 +0100 > From: Jacopo Sadoleto <jacopo.sadoleto at gmail.com> > To: ben at linuxgazette.net > Subject: 2-Cent Tip > > Ben I would like to submit a tip, it it fails miserably off the mark, please > feel free to bin-it... > > Sometimes upgrading an Linux distro to a recent version, yields an "No space > left on device" (usually /var); > For those not willing to use a tool to create, resize, grow a partition, a > simple artifice will do the trick: > > CTRL-ALT-F2 > # mv /var /home/user/? <== or wherever space suffice > # cd / > # ls -s /home/user/var .
I believe he means "ln" instead of "ls". And I guess it would be: ln -s /home/user/var .
> CTRL-ALT-F7
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Henry Grebler [henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au]
Hi,
>On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 06:30, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote: >> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:22:04 +0100 >> From: Jacopo Sadoleto <jacopo.sadoleto at gmail.com> >> To: ben at linuxgazette.net >> Subject: 2-Cent Tip >> >> Ben I would like to submit a tip, it it fails miserably off the mark, please >> feel free to bin-it... >> >> Sometimes upgrading an Linux distro to a recent version, yields an "No space >> left on device" (usually /var); >> For those not willing to use a tool to create, resize, grow a partition, a >> simple artifice will do the trick: >> >> CTRL-ALT-F2 >> # mv /var /home/user/??? <== or wherever space suffice >> # cd / >> # ls -s /home/user/var . >I believe he means "ln" instead of "ls". And I guess it would be: >ln -s /home/user/var . > >> CTRL-ALT-F7
In that case, we could reduce the tip to:
CTRL-ALT-F2 # mv /var /home/user # <== or wherever space suffice # ln -s /home/user/var / CTRL-ALT-F7Personally, I like to put it this way:
CTRL-ALT-F2 # DIR=/home/user # <== or wherever space suffice # mv /var $DIR # ln -s $DIR/var / CTRL-ALT-F7
The tip is simple (easy to understand and use), general (applies to a range of scenarios) and effective. The tricky bit is having the presence of mind to think of it when you are confronted with the problem. I usually think of such things in the context, "I should have used Jacopo's tip!"
Cheers, Henry
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:24:02PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 Jacopo Sadoleto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sometimes upgrading an Linux distro to a recent version, yields an "No space > > left on device" (usually /var); > > For those not willing to use a tool to create, resize, grow a partition, a > > simple artifice will do the trick: > > > > CTRL-ALT-F2 > > # mv /var /home/user/ <== or wherever space suffice > > # cd / > > # ls -s /home/user/var . > > I believe he means "ln" instead of "ls". And I guess it would be: > ln -s /home/user/var .
That certainly makes sense. You could also skip the 'cd' and simply do 'ln -s /home/user/var /'.
Of course, the entire tip presumes that /home is already on a different partition. If you decided to use a single partition for everything when doing the original installation, then you've got a bit more of a job ahead of you.
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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:04:51PM +1100, Henry Grebler wrote:
> >On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Jacopo Sadoleto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> CTRL-ALT-F2 > >> # mv /var /home/user/??? <== or wherever space suffice > >> # cd / > >> # ls -s /home/user/var . > >I believe he means "ln" instead of "ls". And I guess it would be: > >ln -s /home/user/var . > > > >> CTRL-ALT-F7 > > In that case, we could reduce the tip to: > > CTRL-ALT-F2 > # mv /var /home/user # <== or wherever space suffice > # ln -s /home/user/var / > CTRL-ALT-F7
[grin] I guess I should have read before posting; Henry's already covered this bit. Well, no harm.
> Personally, I like to put it this way: > > CTRL-ALT-F2 > # DIR=/home/user # <== or wherever space suffice > # mv /var $DIR > # ln -s $DIR/var / > CTRL-ALT-F7
In that case, you could just use "$_" - Bash uses this variable to store the last explicitly-named directory.
# mv /var /home/user # ln -s $_/var /This is *nix. There's always more than one way to do it.
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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:22:39AM -0500, Benjamin Okopnik wrote:
> > In that case, you could just use "$_" - Bash uses this variable to store > the last explicitly-named directory.
Erm, whoops. I was thinking of something else, actually. Bash sets "$_" to the value of the last argument, not the last directory. What I wrote will still work fine, though.
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