about filesystem /dev/sda

[albertkhor]

i using df -h to check my partition space, below is the result I get

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 1.9G 1.6G 244M 87% /
/dev/sda8 226G 8.5G 206G 4% /home
/dev/sda7 965M 19M 897M 3% /tmp
/dev/sda3 76G 4.4G 68G 6% /usr
/dev/sda2 142G 1.4G 134G 2% /var
/dev/sda1 1.9G 79M 1.8G 5% /boot
tmpfs 986M 0 986M 0% /dev/shm

Now my question is how to access /dev/sda6 drive and clean up some files?

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
It looks to me as /dev/sda6 is your root partition. 2 GB is not much space for a distro /root partition, perhaps you should switch one of the other /var/ /usr /tmp partitions with /sda6 since they are so big.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Which Linux distro are you using? As MikeTbob mentioned already, 2GB is very less space for / partition. You have plenty of disk space (/var 142GB and /home 226GB ).

Lets check if you can resize partitions. Post the output of fdisk -l command here. You must have root privileges to execute fdisk command.

[albertkhor]

Hi and Welcome !

Which Linux distro are you using? As MikeTbob mentioned already, 2GB is very less space for / partition. You have plenty of disk space (/var 142GB and /home 226GB ).

Lets check if you can resize partitions. Post the output of fdisk -l command here. You must have root privileges to execute fdisk command.

Below is the result for fdisk -l command:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 255 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 256 19377 153597465 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 19378 29576 81923467+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 29577 60801 250814812+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29577 30086 4096543+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 30087 30341 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 30342 30468 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 30469 60801 243649791 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux

[albertkhor]

Hello and Welcome.
It looks to me as /dev/sda6 is your root partition. 2 GB is not much space for a distro /root partition, perhaps you should switch one of the other /var/ /usr /tmp partitions with /sda6 since they are so big.

The server is not install by me. I'm new in Linux. May I know how to switch folder from one partition to another partition without effect my server system and setup.

[MikeTbob]

The server is not install by me. I'm new in Linux. May I know how to switch folder from one partition to another partition without effect my server system and setup.

Can you please explain exactly what you want to do. I would hate to give you bad advice, not knowing exactly what you are trying to do.

You are wanting to free up some disk space on the /root partition? Or just copy some files?

[albertkhor]

Can you please explain exactly what you want to do. I would hate to give you bad advice, not knowing exactly what you are trying to do.

You are wanting to free up some disk space on the /root partition? Or just copy some files?

I want to free up some disk space on the /root partition. if after clean still not enough space then i want to do copy files.

I have another question, for my server is all "/home", "/tmp", "/usr", "/var", "/boot" under "/" directory?

/dev/sda6 1.9G 1.6G 244M 87% /
/dev/sda8 226G 8.5G 206G 4% /home
/dev/sda7 965M 19M 897M 3% /tmp
/dev/sda3 76G 4.4G 68G 6% /usr
/dev/sda2 142G 1.4G 134G 2% /var
/dev/sda1 1.9G 79M 1.8G 5% /boot

[MikeTbob]

I want to free up some disk space on the /root partition. if after clean still not enough space then i want to do copy files.

I have another question, for my server is all "/home", "/tmp", "/usr", "/var", "/boot" under "/" directory?

/dev/sda6 1.9G 1.6G 244M 87% /
/dev/sda8 226G 8.5G 206G 4% /home
/dev/sda7 965M 19M 897M 3% /tmp
/dev/sda3 76G 4.4G 68G 6% /usr
/dev/sda2 142G 1.4G 134G 2% /var
/dev/sda1 1.9G 79M 1.8G 5% /boot

No, those are all separate partitions. How are you accessing this machine? Are you working over a network or something? I'm curious about your system, are you concerned that /sda6 is getting low on disk space? There shouldn't be anything on / to delete because everything is going to /var, /usr, /tmp and /home, this means that the / partition shouldn't be getting full. Do you understand what I mean? How long has this machine been running?

[albertkhor]

No, those are all separate partitions. How are you accessing this machine? Are you working over a network or something? I'm curious about your system, are you concerned that /sda6 is getting low on disk space? There shouldn't be anything on / to delete because everything is going to /var, /usr, /tmp and /home, this means that the / partition shouldn't be getting full. Do you understand what I mean? How long has this machine been running?

I access the server using Putty. This server is only use for 2 months. I scare in future /sda6 will full and make my server down. The server is install by web hosting company, I purchase a dedicated server.

[MikeTbob]

That's good to know. I feel like you would be better served by waiting until someone else can chime in on this topic. I'm not very good at servers and I don't know much about system administration over a network. I'm sure someone will be along shortly.