[Novalug] how to increase the file space on /dev/sda7?

Joseph K Umstead navl.290@verizon.net
Wed May 11 09:22:46 EDT 2011


On Wednesday 11 May 2011 08:24:43 am Nino Pereira wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> quite frequently now I get a warning: file space low. I do 'du', and find:
> 
> /dev/sda7              9842208   8965904    376336  96% /
> none                   1894932       336   1894596   1% /dev
> none                   1899440       844   1898596   1% /dev/shm
> none                   1899440       212   1899228   1% /var/run
> none                   1899440         0   1899440   0% /var/lock
> none                   1899440         0   1899440   0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda9            920091700  20308220 853045512   3% /home
> /dev/sdc1            976758780  50273528 926485252   6% /media/My Book 3.0
> 
> Apparently, the system complains about /dev/sda7, where '/' sits,
> clearly there's enough room on the system: I've put files I don't use
> often on an external storage system, and '/home/, where I keep the files
> that I do use regularly, has ample space.
> 
> How do I give /dev/sda7 some of the space available on /dev/sda9?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Nino
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I try the "du" command but I dig not get the return you dig. 
My return looks a list of files
And your return looks like list of your  hard drives
What dig I do wrong? Trying to learn more, 
THANKS, Joe Umstead

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joeking@Box_2:~> du -h
48K     ./Box_2       
2.6M    ./ooO_man     
140K    ./Web_ART/bible-on-sex-and-marriage/newsletter-bucket_data
3.0M    ./Web_ART/bible-on-sex-and-marriage                       
3.1M    ./Web_ART                                                 
2.7M    ./.thumbnails/normal                                      
12K     ./.thumbnails/large                                       
2.8M    ./.thumbnails                                             
4.0K    ./.cups                                                   
8.0K    ./.fonts                                                  
1.1M    ./Web_Pages/Pic                                           
1.5M    ./Web_Pages                                               
84K     ./.gstreamer-0.10                                         
4.0K    ./.pulse                                                  
4.0K    ./.cache/gegl-0.0/swap                                    
8.0K    ./.cache/gegl-0.0                                         
12K     ./.cache                                                  
32K     ./Desktop                                                 
892K    ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/database/biblio                
904K    ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/database                       
6.7M    ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/gallery                        
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/temp                           
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.bundle.PackageRegistryBackend
8.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.help.PackageRegistryBackend  
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.script.PackageRegistryBackend
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.executable.PackageRegistryBackend
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.sfwk.PackageRegistryBackend      
4.0K    ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.component.PackageRegistryBackend 
16K     ./.libreoffice/3-
suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend
48K     ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/uno_packages/cache/registry                                                                  
68K     ./.libreoffice/3-suse/user/uno_p



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