[Novalug] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat May 21 14:20:20 EDT 2011


  On 5/21/2011 9:22 AM, Nino Pereira wrote:
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> From: Nino Pereira<ninorpereira@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:46:58 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> To: Bonnie Dalzell<bdalzell@qis.net>
>
> This is what I wrote to the mailing list, but it didn't go through.
>
> Nino
>
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> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem<mailer-daemon@googlemail.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:45:17 +0000
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> To: ninorpereira@gmail.com
>
> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>
>       novalug@calypso.tux.org
>
> Technical details of permanent failure:
> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the
> recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for
> further information about the cause of this error. The error that the
> other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1<novalug@calypso.tux.org>:
> Relay access denied (state 14).
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> Subject: how to increase the file space on /dev/sda7?
> From: Nino Pereira<ninorpereira@gmail.com>
> To: NOVALUG<novalug@calypso.tux.org>
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> List,
>
> thanks to all who reacted to to my desperate cry of help,
> with my machine stopping in the middle of things,
> probably due to insufficient space on /dev/sda.
>
> The problem is now solved. Here's an account of what I ended up doing.
>
> Before the changes, df's output was:
>
> /dev/sda7              9842208   8871276    470964  95% /
> none                   1894932       336   1894596   1% /dev
> none                   1899440       788   1898652   1% /dev/shm
> none                   1899440       208   1899232   1% /var/run
> none                   1899440         0   1899440   0% /var/lock
> none                   1899440         0   1899440   0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda9            920091700  19518600 853835132   3% /home
> /dev/sdc1            976758780  49170244 927588536   6% /media/My Book 3.0
>
> corresponding to the message I got on reboot, essentially
> "insufficient space on /"
>
> I got a wealth of good suggestions how to deal with this. Some went
> straight over my head,
> and some seemed too adventurous to me at this time: I have to learn more
> about Linux to try those out when I have a quiet moment. But, I understood
> the suggestions to find the larger directories under /, which happened to be
> the smallest partition, and move those to /home, which is one of the
> larger partitions.
>
> I did that first with /opt (as suggested): this helped a little. Then, I did it
> with /usr/share. This helped some more. But, what really did it was
> an incredibly large directory, /usr/local/texlive. I had not noticed this
> directory the first time around, so it came last.
>
> For all these directories I did something like:
>
> sudo mv /usr/local/texlive /home/texlive
>
> followed by
>
> sudo ln -s /home/texlive /usr/local/texlive
>
> At first I messed up the order of the directories in the 'ln' command,
> because it's the opposite of the order in the 'mv' command
> (and then moved things back, by leaving 'mv' instead of putting in 'ln -s')
> but eventually it seemed to have worked.
>
> Now, when I do 'df --block-size=G', I get:
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