Hi all,
I got so many responses that were very useful and
once again the list comes through in record time.
Here what they helped :
Joe Fletcher :
- check for unusually large files in /dev
- Clear any log files
Andrew Tolmie :
- move your /tmp to another disk
Jim Belonis :
- use the commands cd /var , du -sk *
- likely suspects are /var/spool/mail where mail inbox files are
kept.
- /var/spool/mqueue where outgoing mail is temporarily kept if the
remote system can't accept it.
- /var/adm/log various log files can get out of hand
- You can also have /dev/bogus-device-name files which can be
created
- /core and core files in other directories.
Question 2 :
- partition the new disk how you want with disklabel or other
tool. Copy the current system onto it with a dump/restore pipe.
Nikola Milutinovic :
- Investigate / and /tmp
Question 2 :
1. Disklabel it and make it bootable [ufs|advfs].
2. vdump | vrestore to transfer the root FS.
3. Edit /etc/fstab and all other files that might reflect changes
(/etc/fdmns/... if you use AdvFS).
sajan s:
- think of deleting some unwanted packages installed
Question 2 :
Disk will be bootable by default when u initialize usink disklabel.
take copy of current disk to new disk
ie.
mount <newdisk> /mnt
dump -0 -f - / | (cd /mnt; restore -f -)
then shutdown and boot using new drive
Michael D. Wholf:
- Use "find / -mtime -1 -type f -mount -ls" to find all files
created in the past day. There is also "-size" switch to look
for files of a certain size.
Question 2 :
1. "disklabel" to create boot block and assign disk partitions
2. If / and /usr are UFS (ie. not managed by LSM) then "newfs -m1" each
disk partition so that you can "mount" them
3. "dd if=/ of=/newone"
Mitch Kulberg :
- use du -k -x .
- If there is NOTHING you can get rid of, you can move /genvmunix
to /usr. This is minimally risky unless you need to boot from
the generic kernel.
Lars Bro : send me a script that he used himself :
# disklabel -z rz10
# scu show edt
# disklabel -rw rz10 RZ1CB-CS
then use hist script called syslabel (syslabel rz10)
PS to Lars : I will try it soon.
Many thanks to those who replied.
I removed any big files from tmp
but I don't find something very big. After 2 hours,
/ was at 67% and I don't know really why.
JEAN
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