RE: [Fwd: latest on the Richmond cluster]

["Stefanovski, Sasko" <sstefano@richmond.edu>]

Dr. Gilfoyle,

You are right. 
Repartitioning is out of question because we need to go through all this all
over again

I checked the /var and it seems that there is an easy solution:
   - this machine not to be used for sending/receiving e-mails (if must,
then clear mailboxes regularly)

See this:

[root@pscm1 /]# du -sh /var/spool/*
6k     /var/spool/anacron
92k     /var/spool/at
4.0k    /var/spool/cron
4.0k    /var/spool/fax
4.0k    /var/spool/lpd
1.8G    /var/spool/mail            <------|
1.1G    /var/spool/mqueue          <------| this together almost the whole
partition
4.0k    /var/spool/rwho
4.0k    /var/spool/vbox
[root@pscm1 spool]# 

In mqueue is ususaly unsent mail (we need to delete this). Can be checked
with mailq command.
In mail directory:

[root@pscm1 mail]# ls -l
total 1800552
-rw-rw----    1 arayner  arayner         0 Nov  4 10:45 arayner
-rw-rw----    1 gilfoyle gilfoyle 1841843032 Dec  1 20:48 gilfoyle    <---
need to be reduced
-rw-rw----    1 luminita luminita        0 Nov  4 20:02 luminita
-rw-rw----    1 pyro     pyro            0 Nov  1 13:04 pyro
-rw-------    1 root     root       104915 Dec  2 04:04 root
-rw-rw----    1 sstefano sstefano        0 Nov  4 09:45 sstefano
-rw-rw----    1 vineyard vineyard      472 Nov 17 19:09 vineyard
[root@pscm1 mail]# 

If this does not work, I have an alternative solution.

Sasko


-----Original Message-----
From: gilfoyle [mailto:ggilfoyl@richmond.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:53 PM
To: Sasko Stafanovski
Subject: [Fwd: latest on the Richmond cluster]


hi sasko,

   we are still struggling to get the cluster working, but we
are making some progress. the latest problem lies with using
the batch/at command in linux. it uses the /var area to 
operate and that area is full on pscm1. see the lising below.
i assume we would have to repartition to expand /var which 
would be very painful i think. can we remove unused stuff 
or possibly move it to another area (like /usr) with a
symbolic link in the /var area? let me know what you think.

jerry


[root@pscm1]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             486M  181M  280M  40% /
none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             2.0G   45M  1.8G   3% /scratch
/dev/hda6              12G  6.2G  5.6G  53% /usr     <-- lots of room
/dev/hda5             3.0G  2.9G   44k 100% /var     <-- full!!
fileserver:/data2    1008G  277G  680G  29% /data2
fileserver:/data1    1008G  440G  517G  46% /data1
fileserver:/data3    1008G  159G  798G  17% /data3
[root@pscm1]# 



-- 
Dr. Gerard P. Gilfoyle
Physics Department                e-mail: ggilfoyl@richmond.edu
University of Richmond, VA 23173  phone:  804-289-8255
USA                               fax:    804-289-8482