how to increase /root space

[Andrew Mathews]

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Swapana Ghosh wrote:
| Hi
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|  >>Try fdisk -l /dev/hdX or sdX where X is the disk
| and look for free
|
|>>space. df -h gives easier to read info:
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| [root at server boot]# df -h
| Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
| /dev/sda7             494M  210M  258M  45% /
| /dev/sda3              23M   22M  283k  99% /boot
| none                  630M     0  629M   0% /dev/shm
| /dev/sda9              61M  5.0M   52M   9% /tmp
| /dev/sda5              40G  8.4G   29G  22% /usr
| /dev/sda6              24G  3.4G   19G  15% /var
| /dev/sda2            1011M  823M  137M  86% /home
| [root at server boot]#

| [root at server boot]# fdisk -l /dev/sda3
|
| Disk /dev/sda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3 cylinders
| Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
|
|      Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id
| System
| [root at server boot]#

Don't add the partition number, (3) just do fdisk -l /dev/sda. If there
is no free space listed, then you have one of 2 choices.
1. Backup, resize, and restore
2. Remove the old kernel RPM's as suggested.
Number 2 is *highly* recommended unless you need an excuse to test your
backup methodology.

| [root at server boot]# mount|column -tx
[...]
| /dev/sda2  on  /home          type  ext3      (rw)

Everything is ext3. I don't know if you can grow it or not. Another
reason why I don't ext3. (there used to be resize2fs for ext2 but I
don't know about ext3)

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