Frugal HD Install - Ran out of hard disk space?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Frugal HD Install - Ran out of hard disk space?
started by: icpeanuts

Posted by icpeanuts on Jan. 22 2006,21:33

I ran into a problem. I did a frugal grub install. Everything seems to be working. Then I ftp to the server and uploaded a 600MB file to the server. It stoped around 300MB. I can not upload anymore.

The system is giving an error no space. But I set the /home directory to /dev/hda3 which had 2.5 gig of space available.

I think the system still thinks it is running on memory. Is there something I can do to fix this problem? Thanks.

Posted by cyberoidx on Jan. 23 2006,00:37

try giving the root directory "/" more space too, along with /usr and /tmp (/usr takes MOST of the space)

Posted by icpeanuts on Jan. 23 2006,01:10

How do I give "/", "/usr" and "/tmp" more space? I am new to Linux and DSL. Thanks.

For testing, I added user "mark" and "mike". I set home=/hda3 at boottime, for some reason, in the mnt/hda3/home directory, there is only the "dsl" directory.

But when I access the /home directory, it contain all 3, "dsl", "mark", "mike"

Any suggestion?

Posted by larkl on Jan. 23 2006,01:58

I'm not sure that you're going to be able to modify the disk allocation for /, /usr etc with a frugal. Would work with a normal HD install. What do you see if you do a df command?

Posted by icpeanuts on Jan. 23 2006,03:05

This is what i got when i ran df.

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 2971 830 2141 28% /
/dev/hda1 62193 51095 7887 87% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 122098 122098 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk 311080 310568 512 100% /ramdisk
/dev/hda3 3818672 277616 3347072 8% /mnt/hda3
/mnt/hda3/home/dsl 3818672 277616 3347072 8% /home/dsl
/mnt/hda3/opt 3818672 277616 3347072 8% /opt

Seems like the /home directory for mark is in ramdisk. I bet that is the reason why memory is full. Why isn't it point to hda3? How do I fix this?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 23 2006,04:43

Maybe your upload is going to a different place like

/tmp

/root

instead of /home/dsl

Posted by icpeanuts on Jan. 23 2006,06:07

I used the mv command and moved /home/mark dir to the /mnt/home/ dir. Then I edit the passwd file and changed the home dir for mark to the /mnt/hda3/home/ After which it is working.

Are there any other way I could have done this?

Thanks for all your help.