Rachel plays Linux on 14 Oct 2018 15:32:07 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] Disk is Full. How to Move /var? |
This is not exactly the answer to your question but have you considered using 'du -sh ./*' to find out the biggest directories and try to cull some files? Also you might have better luck with playing with partition sizes using gparted on a live cd or usb.___________________________________________________________________________On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 5:04 PM Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:Okay, this should be a simple problem, but I'm stumped.
My 200 GByte SSD on my Gentoo system is 99.5% full (sometimes hits 100%,
but I've been erasing as much as I can). I also have a 1 TByte HDD in
the system for regular files. I thought I could move the /var from the
SSD to HDD and open some space, but I'm having some trouble.
If I created a separate partition on the HDD, I could add the partition
in /etc/fstab without any problem, but since there already is a file
system on HDD that fills the whole disk, I wanted to simply move the
/var directory there. However, when I tried to symlink, it seems to
have completely ignored my command.
Here's what I did:
1. Created "/HDDdisk/var" directory on the HDD.
2. Copied everything from "/var" to "/HDDdisk/var".
3. "sudo ln -s /HDDdisk/var /var"
The result: Nothing. /var is still on the SSD and did not move.
What am I doing wrong
What else can I do to relocate files to the HDD from the SSD (I've
already moved /home).
TIA!
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