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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers CentOS 6 ran out of space, need to reclaim it Post 303038178 by stomp on Tuesday 27th of August 2019 12:48:52 PM
Old 08-27-2019
An additional note:

Under Linux there are SELinux and AppArmor around. They take care that services have only read/write/execute permissions which they need(predefined via config).

I do not know if they are armed at CentOS.

But if they are, file permissions are restricted to the configured mysql data location and one will get permission errors if moving the data directory without changing SELinux/AppArmor configuration as well.

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What's regarding partition separation: I prefer all on the root-partition - as opposed to many recommendations especially from traditional unix administration point of view. My reason: It is simpler. I'm monitoring filespace, so it won't go undetected if the machines run low on space. I have a lot not so big machines. In another environment I might prefer seperated partitions.

What I recommend is to always use LVM. It's very flexible and you can move around filesystems to different disks online and can increase fs size online.

But to see the fact partition separation would have saved you in this case.

Last edited by stomp; 08-27-2019 at 02:04 PM..
 

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FDISK(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  FDISK(8)

NAME
acorn-fdisk -- partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines SYNOPSIS
acorn-fdisk -h | --help | -v | --version acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -l | --list [device ...] acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] -s | --size partition acorn-fdisk [-t scheme | --type scheme] [device] DESCRIPTION
The acorn-fdisk utility allows one to display or interactively edit partition tables for Acorn/RISC OS machines in various formats. Using the PC/BIOS format, standard IBM PC (i386) partition tables can also be accessed. When no optional device is given, it defaults to /dev/hda or /dev/sda. The options are as follows: -h | --help Display a short usage and exit immediately. -l | --list Display the partition table(s) of all devices. -s | --size Display the size of partition. -t | --type Select the partitioning scheme to use. Valid schemes are: EESOX Eesox SCSI on the Acorn machines. ICSIDEFS ICS IDE. Filecore/Linux Linux on Filecore. This uses the non-ADFS descriptor to point to the start of the disc to be partitioned. The first two sectors contain a partition table to identify the Linux partitions contained within. PC/BIOS PC/BIOS partitioning scheme. This consists of a partition table in the first sector of the disk which contains both CHS and LBA values for the partitions. There can be up to four entries in the primary partition table. One of these can be an extended partition containing up to four extra partitions. PowerTec PowerTec SCSI on the Acorn machines. Filecore/RISCiX RiscIX on Filecore. -v | --version Display the version of acorn-fdisk and exit immediately. If neither -l | --list or -s | --size are given, the partition table of the given device will be edited interactively. EXAMPLES
Display the default device's partition table on a PC: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS -l Display the PC partition table of /dev/sda: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --list /dev/sda Display the size in blocks of the partition /dev/sda1: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS --size /dev/sda1 Edit the MBR partition table interactively: acorn-fdisk --type PC/BIOS Display the partition table of an MBR backed up to a file: acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -l mbrdump.bin Display the size of the first partition on a device where the MBR would be restored from the backup file mbrdump.bin: acorn-fdisk -t PC/BIOS -s mbrdump.bin1 AUTHORS
arm-fdisk was written by Russell King <rmk@arm.uk.linux.org> based on util-linux fdisk, which was written at least partially by A. V. Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>. This manual page was written for the Debian system by Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> but may be used by others. BSD
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