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Hi,

On one of our solaris servers, the root partition has filled up,(it was poorly sized in the first place), Does anyone have any advice about the best way to add space to a partition. I'm sure I've read how to do this somewhere before but just can't remember...

A colleague has suggested using a symbolic link, eg putting a shortcut to the logs directory on another disk.

We've tried this, pretty unsuccessfully.. does anyone have any better ideas, is it possible to mount a directory from one of the spare disks we have on the root partition.

Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 1.9G 1.7G 145M 93% /
/proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 563M 176K 562M 1% /var/run
swap 563M 688K 562M 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 14G 3K 14G 1% /data1
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s2 67G 12G 54G 19% /data2

Above is the readout from df, as you can see we have loads of space available on the other two mounted disks, only the c1t1d0s0 is filling up, (=not good planning)

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, or could point me in the direction of some useful URLs that would be appreciated.

Thanks very much.
Kenny.

BTW its solaris 5.9

The first thing is to know :
What is filling / up?
If you have data written there, you should not! Once data files have been removed elsewhere and perhaps use links to do so, you may have enough space
The other alternative would be to use /data1 to move /usr/local on it then (in single user...) remove what is under /usr/local and mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 /usr/local (but it is just an example since I dont know what you have installed in / ..)