VMware / Linux - Resizing root partition

[LucianoPatrão]

Hi

In my root partition i have no free space, ad my vmware center is giving some errors on the host.

I have check the free space on the linux(df -h) and in my root( / ) partition i have 5Gb Partition and 5Gb use and 0 free space

Now how can i resize this partition? In my VMware Server i have a local storage with 60Gb(is where i save my VM configuration files)

Is it possible to use some of that Local Storage to resize the root partition?

Thank You

Jail

[beckmana]

Hi,

are the root partition on lvm ?

Andreas

[soleblazer]

It is not possible (without much effort) to do this. I wish they had included lvm support, but they did not.

When you do a df -h , do you see seperate partitions for /var , /usr, etc?

If /var is not a seperate partition, you may be able to clean up alot of files there. As always proceed with care and only delete log files that are old and after you have looked at them.

[LucianoPatrão]

Hi

Yes i have deleted some log files and now have a 3% free space

But after more partition analise, e see that i have copy some Windows 2003 Image to this partition(to use on new VM). That ISO was on the wrong place.

So i move to the storage and now i have a 40% free space

But this partition will rise some day, and then i think the problem will happen again.

Like you i think that lvm support maybe add on the last version.

Thank you for the help

Jail

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Do you have a separate /var and /var/log partitions. If you do not then you need to remove more things.

/var/core contains core files, you can remove these.

If you have no server problems besides free space:

/var/log/*.\[2-9] are log files that are safe to delete. I always like to keep at least 1 rotated log.

/var/log/vmware/*.\[2-9] are also safe to delete.

I do the following:

du -sh /

Which will print out the sizes used by all directories under slash.

Can you tell us your file system partitions? 'grep ext3 /etc/fstab' would help.

Best regards,

Edward

[LucianoPatrão]

Hi

After i move the ISO files this is the partitions

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdc2 4.9G 1.7G 3.0G 36% /

/dev/sdc1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot

none 131M 0 131M 0% /dev/shm

/dev/sdc6 2.0G 41M 1.8G 3% /var/log

/dev/cdrom 437M 437M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom

df -h sh /

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdc2 4.9G 1.7G 3.0G 36% /

Using grep ext3 /etc/fstab

UUID=4dbacf45-2cbf-4ee4-b238-71d62e0833cf / ext3 defaults 1 1

UUID=a4fc6124-a8fa-450d-b642-c1d5158aea54 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

UUID=638ab1c1-20e4-4518-a08c-08718d376863 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2

Jail