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1. SCO
I have SCO Openserver 5.0.5
Root partition is 96% full and I would like to make it bigger. How can this be done?
1) Can I use 'dd' to backup 'root' and then backup '/u' to a third hard disk, then divvy the primary hard disk to have a larger 'root' filesystem (i.e. previous root + u)
2) ... (5 Replies)
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2. Solaris
Hello guys,
I am using Solaris 10 x86 OS. While installing OS i have allocated entire 10 GB space to the root. Now i am not able to create new partition it says me "out of range" or "<cylinder number> not expected". Can someone please help me to allocated a default recommended space i.e 8GB or... (2 Replies)
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3. Solaris
I have a T1000 Sparc server that has a relatively small root partition which is 24Gb and a larger partition dedicated to /export/home that is approximately 100 Gb. We have a lot of data going to /var/audit and to /var/core/corefiles. Is there any non-destructive way to redirect files from... (4 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
i am using redhat 5.4 and my root size shows 98 %, how can i increase root size
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 77G 16G 75G 98% /
/dev/sda1 2.4G 82M 2.2G 4% /boot
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0%... (8 Replies)
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5. Solaris
Dear all,
I have a root partition which is 20 G in size. I have var and /tmp as seperate file systems. But this 20 G of root is not sufficeint.
I want to increase the size of the / partition.
Is there any way to increase with out down time.
my df -k output is
Filesystem ... (4 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all.
New to the forum and new to Unix admin... / filesystem filled up and I can't find where the large files are. Any help will be apppreciated:
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 8063580 7941745 41200 100% /
/proc ... (4 Replies)
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7. Solaris
I'm fairly inexperienced with LDAP and DSEE so to build my skills I installed directory server in the global zone of my Sol 10/u7 machine and created a zone to use as a client. For some reason when I try to change a users password as root (in the client zone) with passwd -r ldap I am prompted for... (1 Reply)
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8. AIX
Hi guys
I am running AIX 5.3 and a newbie to it.
And I am getting reports telling me that the Root Directory is reaching almost max capacity, can someone give m some advice to find out what files are causing it to grow? , or how I can identify the growing files?
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have a freebsd email server which is running out of space on /usr.
du doesn't show any large directories, but df confirms that the partition is running out of space. Is there a way to find out if there is an idle process tying up disk space.
Also, what happens when /usr is full, will... (0 Replies)
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10. Solaris
I had Solaris 8 installed on a Ultra 10 machine but during a shutdown the root partition got corrupted. I have 3 other partitions on the drive (var, swap, home). Is there a way to reinstall the root partition without effecting the other partitions?
Also, when I run format from single user mode I... (4 Replies)
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