Root partition filling up over time

I am running Sol 10 11/06 on a Sun Blade. I installed Sol 10 from DVD a few months ago, making my / partition 12GB in size. /var is not a separate partition. Sun Studio 11 was also installed. I have installed all available patches using Sun Update Manager. Since installation, my / partition has filled up with more than 860 MB of data, none of it from me. I assume that all that space is being used up by superseded versions of installed patches. Does this seem normal? Am I supposed to put up with this until the disk fills up with old, unused patches? /var/adm is ok in terms of the wtmpx file being small (678k). /tmp is clean. I shutdown the computer whenever I am not using it, so MANY reboots have occurred. Here is my df -h:
df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 12G 6.3G 5.4G 55% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 5.2G 1016K 5.2G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 5.2G 1.6M 5.2G 1% /tmp
swap 5.2G 48K 5.2G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7 37G 14G 22G 40% /storage1
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 19G 1000M 18G 6% /storage2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 1.9G 687M 1.2G 36% /export/home
Is there somewhere else I should look for large log/error files, or is the space usage on / normal? Should I back out all the unused patches (I am very, very reluctant to waste time on that)?
Thank you.......

Thank you, Paul. I agree with your thought that we will have to live with the space taken up by superseded patches. I ran the du command listed above:
46817 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/pspool/SUNWj5rt/save/118666-10
46818 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/118666-10
46905 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/118666-11
46905 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/pspool/SUNWj5rt/save/118666-11
47399 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rtx/save
47406 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rtx
47485 /usr/sadm/lib
47767 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8
47874 /usr/appserver/lib
48525 /usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9
48717 /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Resource
50997 /usr/sadm
51545 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9/libp
51916 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROscl/save/pspool/SPROscl/save
51964 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROscl/save/pspool/SPROscl
51965 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROscl/save/pspool
54932 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROsclx/save
54939 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROsclx
55191 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dmo/save
55198 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dmo
55474 /opt/SUNWvts
55707 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dev/save/pspool/SUNWj5dev/save
55721 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dev/save/pspool/SUNWj5dev
55722 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dev/save/pspool
56645 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/stlport4
56746 /usr/lib/iconv
56767 /etc
57941 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9b
58317 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8plusa
58991 /usr/perl5
59079 /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts
60046 /usr/sfw/bin
60659 /usr/openwin/platform/sun4u/lib/sparcv9/GL
60660 /usr/openwin/platform/sun4u/lib/sparcv9
60817 /usr/openwin/lib/X11
61012 /usr/jdk/packages
61274 /usr/openwin/platform/sun4u/lib/GL
63586 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp
63738 /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla
64776 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv9+vis2
70582 /usr/sfw/include
71427 /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Reader/sparcsolaris/plug_ins
73032 /usr/j2se/jre/lib
74250 /usr/staroffice7/program/resource
76277 /usr/j2se/jre
76762 /usr/lib/cpu/sparcv9+vis2
78514 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROf90/save
78521 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROf90
79585 /usr/bin/idl_6.3/bin/bin.solaris2.sparc64
79705 /usr/bin/idl_6.3/bin
80078 /usr/sfw/share
80719 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9a
81777 /usr/dt
83075 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/bin
84217 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-15
84418 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-14
86632 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages
91933 /usr/lib/sparcv9
93723 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/pspool/SUNWj5rt/save
93848 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/pspool/SUNWj5rt
93849 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save/pspool
103054 /usr/bin/idl_6.3
103883 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROscl/save
103890 /var/sadm/pkg/SPROscl
108572 /usr/appserver
109127 /usr/j2se
110373 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12/lib/xemacs
111430 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dev/save
111438 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5dev
114717 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu
115284 /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib
117539 /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre
121935 /usr/openwin/platform/sun4u/lib
122130 /usr/openwin/platform/sun4u
122170 /usr/openwin/platform
129566 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12/lib
130404 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9
134488 /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Reader/sparcsolaris
144166 /usr/staroffice7/help
146171 /opt/sfw/lib
146175 /opt/sfw
149240 /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Reader
151465 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12/xemacs_sources
155896 /usr/staroffice7/share
165537 /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0
165538 /usr/jdk/instances
168657 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save
168665 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt
173612 /usr/bin
185511 /usr/lib/cpu
187573 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/save
187603 /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt
199081 /usr/lib/AdobeReader
204370 /usr/sfw/lib
204935 /usr/openwin/lib
226554 /usr/jdk
256823 /usr/share
283253 /usr/staroffice7/program
291529 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/xemacs-21.4.12
305314 /opt/SUNWspro/contrib
387548 /usr/openwin
460719 /usr/sfw
584586 /usr/staroffice7
810087 /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib
827759 /usr/lib
945127 /opt/SUNWspro/prod
1253930 /opt/SUNWspro
1429852 /var/sadm/pkg
1480266 /var/sadm
1488099 /var
1500665 /opt
3450973 /usr
6587050
The above is in 1024 byte blocks. The above isn't the whole listing, but what sticks out is all the space for the java-related j2se/jre/jdk/j5dev patches. I'm sure those take up 100s of megs. The /var/sadm/pkg looks awful big. Can you see anything else in there that looks out of whack?

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Then use the
tune2fs -j /dev/xxx
command (the defaults for the forced checks are ok with me). Then reboot with the CD still in place, but use
this time root=/dev/xxx. Then I can change my /etc/fstab (ext3 should have been able to be mounted as ext2 at
the moment). Finally I have to rebuild my initrd image with
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
Then I should be able to boot into my system. And now the question: Can anyone verify that this is a valid approach
and will work? Or knows a better way to do it?
I'm grateful for any input
Last edited by alafanky (2007-11-26 15:41:35)

Have a look at the man for tune2fs and mkinitcpio
man tune2fs
man mkinitcpio
I am looking at doing the same and as far as I can figure out it goes like this, BUT this is not a proven method just what I am thinking of doing, Maybe someone else can correct or add to this or confirm that it will work.
1. Add journal parameter like this:
tune2fs -j /dev/sda1
2. Change the partition type from ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab
3. For a standard kernel re-create ramdisk with preset parameters (no good for custom kernel)
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
As the system is mounted it will create the journal inode in the top level, don't delete this, it will get hidden into the filesystem on reboot.
Let me know if you make some progress. I may get brave and try it later.
So in answer, yes pretty much the same but I think you can do it with the fs mounted.
Last edited by alleyoopster (2007-11-26 12:44:29)

Trouble with luks non root partition

hello,
today i struggled with creating an encryptet archlinux installation.
what i want is to encrypt my root and all other partitions with luks.
basically i used the guide on the archwiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt_with_LUKS ),
but iam always failing at the same point.
my setup is a bit more complex, but to describe my problem i want to use a simple testcase
/dev/sda with 2 partitions
/dev/sda1 as /boot
/dev/sda2 as crypto_LUKS
/dev/sdb with 1 partition
/dev/sdb1 as crypto_LUKS
/dev/sda2 should be / and /dev/sdb1 f.eks. /home
iam using passphrases for both partitions.
i edited the HOOKS line in mkinitcpio.conf and added "encrypt" before "filesystems",
and i also edited the crypttab to somethink like this:
sdb1_crypt /dev/sdb1 none luks
my fstab entry for /home looks like
/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
so far so good, when iam booting iam prompted for passphrases 2 times. first time to encrypt and mount the root-partition, which works fine.
second time for the /home partition, but then the boot process stucks and systemd times out
[ OK ] Found device /dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt
[ OK ] Started Cryptography Setup for sdb1_crypt
[ OK ] Reached target Encryptet Volumes
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper/sdb1_crypt
[ DEPEND ] Dependency failed for /home
[ DEPEND ] Dependency failed for Local File Systems
iam thrown to emergency shell then.
/dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt exists, but when iam trying to mount it with
mount /dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt /mnt
it says
mount: special device /dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt does not exist
cryptsetyp says , that /dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt is inactive.
anyway i can luksOpen it manually with
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 foo
enter passphrase again and now iam able to mount /dev/mapper/foo
what am i missing in my here?
thanks for helping !
ineb

I just worte this. It dose not cover the LVM part. However, you do not need to do anything for that.
Just add this between "keymap encrypt" and "filesystems" in the HOOKS= array
lvm2
Also, becuase you have more then mone parition that is encrypted and needs to be decrypted at boot, you may need to have this the the /etc/default/grub instead of what what I put in the post I linked to.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:root cryptdevice=/dev/sdb1:home"
The `grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` command WILL find all your LVM2 lv's with no problem and configure grub.cfg correctly. You just need to edit /etc/default/grub and use that command to rebuild the grub.cfg
Other then that this post should solve your problems.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1209702
Last edited by hunterthomson (2012-12-25 02:40:23)

Sum Over Time

Hi,
I'm trying to do something which I would guess is quite a common query, but after scratching my head and perusing the web I am still no closer to a solution.
I am running:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
I'm looking to sum up a set of values, taking into account both a parent grouping and start and end dates.
For the parent grouping I am using:
+SUM([value]) over (Partition by [Parent] order by [Parent],[Child])+
And I was hoping to be able to extend this SUM to also handle the start and end dates, so the final output would contain a sum of the values for each different time period.
As an example, using the data below I'm trying to sum up the price of the components of a car over time:
row, product, component, rate, start date, end date
1, car, chassis, 180, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009
2, car, chassis, 200, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050
3, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2000, 01/01/2050
Notice there is a change of price for Component 'chassis', so the output I'm looking for is:
row, product, component, rate, start date, end date, sum
1, car, chassis, 180, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
3, car, chassis, 200, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
4, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
But in reality all I need is:
row, product, start date, end date, sum
1, car, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
Preferably the query would be in a view rather than a stored procedure, and it needs to be able to handle many 'products', 'components' and start/end dates.
All help most appreciated, and if any more info is required, please let me know.
Thanks,
Julian

Hi Frank,
Thanks for picking up this query, I'll try to explain my points in more detail:
+SUM([value]) over (Partition by [Parent] order by [Parent],[Child])+I don't see columns called value, parent or child in the sample data below.
Is value the same as rate? What are parent and child? In the example:
Product is the parent
Component is the child
Rate is the value
Whenever you have a problem, post CREATE TABLE and INSERT statments for your sample data.CREATE TABLE "REPOSITORY"."PRODUCT_RATES"
(     "PRODUCT" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
     "COMPONENT" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
     "RATE" NUMBER(9,2),
     "START_DATE" DATE,
     "END_DATE" DATE
) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "SHOP_AREA" ;
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('car', 'chassis', 180, to_date('01-01-2000','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('31-12-2009','dd-mm-yyyy'))
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('car', 'chassis', 200, to_date('01-01-2010','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('01-01-2050','dd-mm-yyyy'))
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('car', 'engine', 100, to_date('01-01-2000','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('01-01-2050','dd-mm-yyyy'))
Although the above short scenario highlights my issue, to expand on the example data set:
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('family', 'wife', 500, to_date('01-01-2000','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('31-12-2001','dd-mm-yyyy'))
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('family', 'wife', 999, to_date('01-01-2002','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('01-01-2050','dd-mm-yyyy'))
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('family', 'baby', 250, to_date('01-01-2000','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('31-12-2004','dd-mm-yyyy'))
insert into REPOSITORY.PRODUCT_RATES (PRODUCT, COMPONENT, RATE, START_DATE, END_DATE) values ('family', 'baby', 500, to_date('01-01-2005','dd-mm-yyyy'), to_date('01-01-2050','dd-mm-yyyy'))
Notice there is a change of price for Component 'chassis', so the output I'm looking for is:
row, product, component, rate, start date, end date, sum
1, car, chassis, 180, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
3, car, chassis, 200, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
4, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300Explain how you get 4 rows of output when the table contains only 3 rows. Are you saying that, because some row has end_date=31/12/2009, then any other row that includes that date has to be split into two, with one row ending on 31/12/2009 and the other one beginning on the next day?
Explain, step by step, how you get the values in the desired output, especially the last column.
But in reality all I need is:Sorry, I can;'t understand what you want.
Are you saying that the output above sould be acceptable, but the output below would be even better?
row, product, start date, end date, sum
1, car, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
Preferably the query would be in a view rather than a stored procedure, and it needs to be able to handle many 'products', 'components' and start/end dates.Include a couple of differtent products in your sample data and results.
I'm not sure what you want, but there's nothing in what you've said so far that makes me think a stored procedure would be needed.The only output I actually require is:
row, product, component, rate, start date, end date, sum
1, car, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300and with the extended data set:
3, family, 750, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2001
4, family, 1249, 01/01/2002, 31/12/2004
5, family, 1499, 01/01/2005, 31/12/2050however, I was thinking that the data set would need to be somehow expanded to get to the above end result, hence why I included the 'middle step' of:
row, product, component, rate, start date, end date, sum
1, car, chassis, 180, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
2, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2000, 31/12/2009, 280
3, car, chassis, 200, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300
4, car, engine, 100, 01/01/2010, 01/01/2050, 300however, this may be irrelevent.
By the way, there's no point in using the same expression in both the PARTITON BY and ORDER BY clauses of the same analytic function call. For example, if you "PARTITION BY parent", then, when "ORDER BY parent, child" is evaluated, rows will only be compared to other rows with the same parent, so they'll all tie for first place in "ORDER BY parent". OK, thanks.
So far I have got to:
select
sum(rate) over (partition by product) as sum,
a.*
from product_rates a
which results in:
SUM     PRODUCT     COMPONENT     RATE     START_DATE     END_DATE
480     car     engine     100     2000-01-01 00:00:00.0     2050-01-01 00:00:00.0
480     car     chassis     200     2010-01-01 00:00:00.0     2050-01-01 00:00:00.0
480     car     chassis     180     2000-01-01 00:00:00.0     2009-12-31 00:00:00.0
2249     family     baby     250     2000-01-01 00:00:00.0     2004-12-31 00:00:00.0
2249     family     wife     999     2002-01-01 00:00:00.0     2050-01-01 00:00:00.0
2249     family     baby     500     2005-01-01 00:00:00.0     2050-01-01 00:00:00.0
2249     family     wife     500     2000-01-01 00:00:00.0     2001-12-31 00:00:00.0
but this shows that all price variations for a component over time are being summed (e.g. car enging 100 + car chassis 200 + car chassis 180 = 480)
Hope that goes someway expaling my query better.
Also, quick query to improve my postings - how do i indent without making text ittallic, and how do you make code a different font?
Thanks again.
Julian

Why hasn't Adobe navigation and user interface design improved as much as it could have over time?

I haven't tried CS6. I'm sure it's great based on what i've seen alone. But as a user of adobe products for a number of years, i have to noticed there are still a lot of stagnant,awkward, stiff, irriating, slowing down elements found in the navigation and user interface on cs3-cs5, that i'm sure could have been eliminated or improved on at least from 2005 or 2007 onwards. I find some of these things inexcusable and unprogressive from bad traits that defined 1980's and 1990's general computer navigation and so on.
CS5.5 has lessned this a bid bit and is more fluid in bits and pieces but for those using cs3-cs5 and in general, i find some things just horrid. As a graphic designer no one is supposed to admit the flaws or irrations of these programs. We must hail them as god, never critisize, and always adjust to new things which i think is a bit fascististic and silly
The way the tools, options are laid out can be improved to be quicker, and easier to find and use. Using your voice as a commanding system would be helpful as well.
A lot of cmds are too complex to remember, they can be simplier or resemble the name of the tool or option. Its makes a chore to follow this system and competition for the smart *** who memormized all the cmds.
The way in which you loose floating side boxes, and the amount of tools or names hidden in the bars sometimes seem random and its always a constant search to find them incase you forget where they are.
The inability to open cs4 or 5 files in cs3 is just beyond extremly annoying. Whey shouldn't you be able to open cs1 or 2 files or photoshop 9 files as well? Every five years work expires as well?
The layering system gets tricky and seems that a lot of things don't work when you normally move things. Its about going back, remembering and clicking on this or that, looking it up to make everything work. Sometimes which leaves you in a rut and wastes a good amount of time. You will always find this even after you've been using it for years.
The use of the fill paint/airbrushing, clone tool, lasso tool, pen tool, history being two steps back can be vastly improved to be much better to use
Masking and tools that have more complex features should find a way be automatically done or sampled. They can also have less complex steps and tha ability to be previewed, automatic or simpler ( in case you can't remember how to do something or aren't getting it)
A lot of the special effects, and blending modes are useless, outdated, super-ugly and don't resemble true darkroom effects ( such as polarization, and bas-relief for example) which they could much more vividly done. There also could be more options that are closer to repro cameras/CTP software for halftoning and more complex digital effects.
Having to press or get used to pressing muliple keys or clicks for the most basic things simultaneously can be reduced to be easier
Adjusting text, new documents, photos should have a smoother, quicker navigational experince where things a lot of room to be , clicked back, re-done, saved in the wrong place etc..
Indesign could use more shapes, include more features that illustrator has, and possibly even photoshop to save time.
There should be a way to remind you of features, complex things you've forgotten, other than history and daily usage/practice of the programs
The help should resemble more of "visual -learners" guide books with voice features.
There are a lot more
Regarding other things:
I think the price encorages more piracy and allows people to not have a concept of what is means to owning software.
The loss of a manual or lessening of them for certain programs is a loss because it's always useful to physical info you can flip through while looking at your program.
I think adobe should make entirely better products for professionals or people in the industry rather than spoonfeeding the same software to all.
They should also make less expensive add-ons like before for graphic software.
What do you adobe could have improved over time and if so what do you think they could have improved on?

You have this wishform to suggest improvements to Adobe products:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
and the Creative Suites forums are here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites
This specific forum is only for discussions on the forums themselves, so you are not very likely to get any change by posting your comments here.

Running out of disk space on root partition

Hello,
I'm running gnome 3 and every time I boot and logon with my user I'm getting a warning that my root partition is running out of disk space (~350MB free out of 7.5GB). This seems really strange to me since I've not installed very much software. I've got a 1TB hard drive and the big things are stored in my home directory.
# df -h
outputs:
Filesystem size used free used% mounted
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
run 10M 168K 9,9M 2% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 7,3G 6,6G 357M 95% /
shm 2,0G 444K 2,0G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
/dev/sda4 910G 131G 733G 16% /home
/dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 seems a little bit odd to me there although I don't have much experience using linux based systems.
# ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 -l
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 (...date and time ...) /dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 -> ../../sda3
and tab completion lists the files of my home directory. What's going on here?

Inxsible wrote:
ChoK wrote:/usr should not be on a seperate partition anymore. Some programs assume it's on the same partition and fail sometime silently sometime badly.
What ?? That's the first I have heard of this. What programs fail? Any examples?
With sysvinit in Arch, this isn't such a big problem, but we're slowly starting to see evidence that this is becoming a worse and worse idea. In particular, if you set a non C locale for daemons, you will not be able to shut down cleanly, as mount(8) is trying to reference files in the locale cache (on /usr) and can't unmount /usr.
Example bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25149
If you're using systemd, /usr on a separate partition is flat out not allowed. We're getting into the realm of filthy hacks ahead in order to try and support this -- see Tom's late comments in the above bug report.
Oh, and be on the lookout for a cache cleaning util in pacman-contrib (name pending):
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 13926.html
Last edited by falconindy (2011-07-27 20:48:14)

Resized root partition didn't really resize

I had two partitions, 250 + 50 gigs. Then I decided to remove the second one and grow the root partition over the whole disk.
So I started using install DVD -> disk utility -> removed the second and grew the first. Everything went OK.
Then I rebooted and it there was no more empty space on the drive. So I strted disk utility (live system) and the numbers were funny, I'm talking about partition (not drive!):
used space: 200gigs, free space: 50 gigs, total capacity: 300 gigs.
So the partition got resized but the volume actually didn't?
Then I ran (live) verify disk and it found "minor error in volume header" (no **** sherlock, you're missing 50 gigs) but couldn't fix it. I restarted from DVD, ran disk utility there and there were no errors found!
So, how can I grow the root filesystem? How come can "real" system find errors and live doesn't?

I fixed it!
I did what the graphical interface should call in the background, but it seems it just didn't.
Ran the system from DVD, opened terminal and wrote
diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 SIZE
it's now ok.
The funny part is that SIZE parameter was exactly the same as
diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 limits
returned under "Current size".
It seems there's a bug in diskutil.

Fsck on root partition without live CD

Hi,
For some unknown reason, I have to manually repair the root filesystem, but obviously every time I try, fsck tells me that the partition is mounted.
I know I could use some live CD, or pendrive, but turns out my live CD is VERY scratched, and my BIOS can't boot from a pendrive. Of course I could go and buy another cd, but there must be another way, so here I am.
Back in the old days, with sysv init, the only thing I had to do was enter the single-user-mode, and do the repair. Now, it is impossible, because "/" is always mounted. I've tried "systemd.unit=rescue.target" from grub, and "mount -o remount,ro /", I also prayed to my computer, but none of these things worked.
So, is there any way to fsck the root partition without using a pendrive or live cd?
Thank you.

You may not be able to directly boot from a pendrive, but you can boot to your bootloader. From the bootloader, it should be possible to start Arch from the pendrive. I am not at my Arch machine right now, and ssh'ing into it won't let me play in Grub, but I think Grub should be able to handle USB drives out-of-the-box. If not, I know the correct drivers can be installed to the boot partition.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gr … _From_GRUB talks of how to modify the Grub menu to do this, but you should be able to hand-fly Grub by adapting this.

Attempting to resize my root partition on LVM

My root partition is currently full, so I want to resize it. I'm using LVM and the filesystem is ext4, so I assumed it should be easy enough. My plan was to reduce my /home to make space. However, when following the instructions in the wiki get the following error:
# resize2fs /dev/vg/syshome 450G
resize2fs 1.42.4 (12-June-2012)
Filesystem at /dev/vg/syshome is mounted on /home; on-line resizing required
resize2fs: On-line shrinking not supported
According to https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ … esystem.3F however, online resizing should be possible.
What am I missing?
Last edited by phunni (2012-08-03 20:37:26)

First, install and use ncdu to check what's eating up all the space.
$ ncdu / --exclude /home --exclude /media
Maybe it's easily fixed, like a log file or something. Speaking of which, learn2logrotate. Here's my /etc/logrotate.conf.
Then if you still want to grow the root partition, try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LV … cal_volume
Next time please specify in the title that it's about LVM.

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