[LUNI] Disk full, but not really

Arun Khan knura at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 03:18:13 CDT 2007


On Wednesday 15 August 2007 04:24, Branko Kotur wrote:
> I'm not even going to bother changing anything.  I'm getting the new
> drive put in tonight (hopfully), so it's not an issue and no real
> need.  And for the time being, I'm having a couple large files
> removed (temporarily) so things keep running smoothly.

A suggestion, go with LVM.  Next time a fs is close to full, just add a 
disk or partition to the volume and extend it :)

A couple of LVM docs:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html?page=1
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php

-- Arun Khan


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