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Red Hat 7.3: No space left on device
I am using RedHat 7.3 and it's installed on a 20 Gig harddrive with the default settings.
I keep getting this error - I noticed this a few times a week ago when adding files to my CVS repository, but it went away when I added files slowly.
[root@drevil onpoint]# jar -xvf onpoint.war
created: META-INF/
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.w
at java.io.FileOutputStream.w
at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract
at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract
at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Mai
at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Ma
I'm a linux rookie, but a Windows expert. I think the problem is that my partition for /var or /opt is not big enough. Those are the two partitions where I've received those errors.
If this is the problem, is there a command-line partitioning tool to resize my partitions?
Thanks,
Matt
I keep getting this error - I noticed this a few times a week ago when adding files to my CVS repository, but it went away when I added files slowly.
[root@drevil onpoint]# jar -xvf onpoint.war
created: META-INF/
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.w
at java.io.FileOutputStream.w
at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract
at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract
at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Mai
at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Ma
I'm a linux rookie, but a Windows expert. I think the problem is that my partition for /var or /opt is not big enough. Those are the two partitions where I've received those errors.
If this is the problem, is there a command-line partitioning tool to resize my partitions?
Thanks,
Matt
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Is this a problem with partition sizes?
Yes, your disk(s) is(are) full :)
try df -h in a console, and see for yourself ;)
try df -h in a console, and see for yourself ;)
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 372M 195M 158M 56% /
/dev/hda1 45M 14M 30M 31% /boot
/dev/hda3 4.6G 108M 4.2G 3% /home
none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 13G 2.2G 9.8G 18% /usr
/dev/hda7 251M 251M 0 100% /var
The rpm for tomcat 4.x installs it in /var, and it seams that the rpm for Darwin Streaming Server does this as well.
Simple solution - install the binary versions in /usr/local
Complex solution - resize partitions.
If you suggest complex solution, please post detailed instructions how to resize /var
I'm not worried about killing the machine, I just installed everything last week. But I wouldn't mind NOT destroying everything ;-)
/dev/hda5 372M 195M 158M 56% /
/dev/hda1 45M 14M 30M 31% /boot
/dev/hda3 4.6G 108M 4.2G 3% /home
none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 13G 2.2G 9.8G 18% /usr
/dev/hda7 251M 251M 0 100% /var
The rpm for tomcat 4.x installs it in /var, and it seams that the rpm for Darwin Streaming Server does this as well.
Simple solution - install the binary versions in /usr/local
Complex solution - resize partitions.
If you suggest complex solution, please post detailed instructions how to resize /var
I'm not worried about killing the machine, I just installed everything last week. But I wouldn't mind NOT destroying everything ;-)
forgot to say, cfdisk does not come with RH7.3 but a simple search in rpmfind.net should locate a suitable copy.
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LVM?? Linux Virtual Machine? a.k.a you run Linux from Windows?
Logical Volume Manager :-)
See http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm
This is a very good product with familiarities with HPUX's LVM.
See http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm
This is a very good product with familiarities with HPUX's LVM.
You could use a soft (symbolic) link. This would allow you to physically locate files that are in /var in /usr. Then a symbolic link would be a logical link to those files. In essence, the system would think the files are still located in /var and you would not have to resize.
Let's say you have a directory /var/xxx (tomcat or Darwin, for example)
Make sure none of the files in /var/xxx are in use by an application
cp -R /var/xxx /usr
rm -rf /var/xxx
ln -s /usr/xxx /var
Symbolic links are identified with an "l" in the first permission bit and a -> in the name to indicate where the files are physically located.
You would see xxx -> /usr/xxx in a directory listing of /var
Let's say you have a directory /var/xxx (tomcat or Darwin, for example)
Make sure none of the files in /var/xxx are in use by an application
cp -R /var/xxx /usr
rm -rf /var/xxx
ln -s /usr/xxx /var
Symbolic links are identified with an "l" in the first permission bit and a -> in the name to indicate where the files are physically located.
You would see xxx -> /usr/xxx in a directory listing of /var
If you run Redhat's updating program (rhnsd) you will probably find that it is resonsible for filling your /var partition. You could turn it off and then run manually when you feel you need to.
Find the directory it stores the RPMs in (it'll have lots of files with '.rpm' and '.hdr' extensions). Save any RPMs you might be interested in and then remove all these files. That will free up 100's of MB.
Find the directory it stores the RPMs in (it'll have lots of files with '.rpm' and '.hdr' extensions). Save any RPMs you might be interested in and then remove all these files. That will free up 100's of MB.
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I found 160 MB worth of file in /var/cache! So I deleted those and moved Tomcat to /usr/local.
Thanks for all your help. I'll reward points to jools since that's where a lot of insight came from.
Thanks for all your help. I'll reward points to jools since that's where a lot of insight came from.
Very kind, if you accept as answer, I'll pick up when I'm next online.
You do need to spend more time on this. If the problem resulted from cached files, you will run into the same problem again. Sounds like you found a quick but not final solution.
I would suggest that a backup would help before you start.
J