On 2012/01/13 16:55, lilit-aibolit wrote: > 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: > > > a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / > > b: 1.2G 2097215 swap > > c: 37.3G 0 unused > > d: 2.6G 4683375 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp > > e: 4.0G 10052439 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var > > f: 2.0G 18541648 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr > > g: 1.0G 22735952 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # > > /usr/X11R6 > > h: 3.5G 24833104 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # > > /usr/local > > i: 1.9G 32229473 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/src > > j: 1.9G 36247864 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /usr/obj > > k: 18.1G 40266255 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /home > > > >As you have partitions on the disk between /usr and /home, > >you can't easily just grow /var. > > > >Here are some options: > > > >- backup, reinstall with better partition sizes, restore. > > > >- swap /var and /home partitions (shut down services, copy files > >around between the partitions, swap the fstab entries, reboot). > >if you are not totally confident with doing this, make sure your > >backups are up-to-date first. > > > >- if you only need a little more space, or if you need to buy some > >time until you an plan a proper reinstallation, move your squid > >cache_dir to /home. > > > > > > > I got the same recommendation from Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com > with little difference, do it in single mode: > > 1. Boot in single user mode, enter shell. > 2. mount /, /usr, /var and /home. > 3. Move /var/* to /home. > 4. Move /home/* to /var (except what moved on step 3). > 5. Umount /home and /var. > 6. Edit fstab and switch /home and /var mount points. > 7. Try to mount /home and /var now, checking all is ok. > 8. Proceed booting (^D) and have a nice day. > > but I operate remotely, and can't shut down all services, such PF or > SSH. So in any way I need to do this locally?
I do not *recommend* doing this without console access, but sometimes there is no other choice. ;-) Since you don't have full access you need to take extra care. Shut down anything that you don't absolutely require. syslogd, squid, httpd/nginx, whatever. I would *copy* files from /home to /var, not move them (of course you'll need to clear some space first - old logs or squid cache might be a good candidate). I would probably skip steps 5 and 7, just be careful that your fstab lines are correct. Take care and think about every command before you press the enter key. Check that everything is in the right place before you reboot.
