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File system / full

Edwin Ruiz_2 — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:55:53 GMT

Hi!

I make one directory on / file system called oracle, but it has too information an d my file system / is full. I dont want to lost this information.. can i redirect this directory to othe file system? how can i do?

Re: File system / full

John Poff — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:44:23 GMT

Hi,

Here is one way to handle it. You could make a new filesystem that is big enough to hold the contents of /oracle, mount it up, copy over the contents of /oracle to the new filesystem, rename /oracle to something else (/oracle_old), and then umount and remount the new filesystem as /oracle.

JP

Re: File system / full

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:49:06 GMT

oracle data should not be stored in the root filesystem.

You need to create a new filesystem for it and then move any data you have in the original off of the root / filesystem

SEP

Re: File system / full

Reinhard Bayer — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:53:56 GMT

Hi Edwin

I would do the following:

copy the entire directory (/oracle) to a new filesystem e.g. /app
rename the /oracle to /oracle.old
Link the new FS to the old directory
(ln -s /app/oracle /oracle)

Check access to the data
Backup data
Reconfigure your system so that you can delete the previous link and delete the /oracle

and keep in mind for the future: Never place working directories at "/" filesystem.

Hth
Reinhard