Re: [PLUG] Disk is Full. How to Move /var?

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

PLUG,

You may want to use my dubig script when looking for big files and
directories.  It takes as an argument the min number of digits that
the du -k command should echo.  For example:

% dubig 6

Show files and folders that are at least 100,000k (six digits) in size.

It's a trivial script that pipes du into grep.  I use it all the time to
decide what is worth deleting or moving to free up space.

See:
- http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix/dubig

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On 10/14/18 6:31 PM, Rachel plays Linux wrote:
> Doh, yes I meant du -sh rather than ls -sh
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 6:18 PM Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com 
> <mailto:microlaser@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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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