Adding usable disk to / filesystem

[Pete Randall]

Marco,

A 38KB script file? I don't think so!

Pete

[fg_1]

I had sent a letter to HP asking that they look in to that very thing, as it is a required directory using jetdirect printer installer, what it appears as is though you have it duplicated, 1) /etc/lp/interface
and 2)/etc/lp/interface/model.orig. Seems illogical to me but im not the creator of the program.

I had given thoughts to moving that directory to another location and linking it back to /etc/lp/interface/model.orig but I was told that this would not work.

[Marco Santerre]

Pete, it's one script per printer defined.

[Pete Randall]

Actually, make that a 38MB script file. They've got to be storing something in there. Any hppi experts out there care to enlighten us?

Pete

[fg_1]

Pete, im attaching a sample file from the directory, there is one of these created for each and every one of the 500 printers i have defined on this system.

[Pete Randall]

Frank,

I think you forgot the attachment - but if you're referring to the files like your /etc/lp/interface/dm1cmg03, /etc/lp/interface/dm1lpd02, etc., they're normal. They're also only 11 or 12 KB each. It's that model.orig that's hogging all the space.

Pete

[Marco Santerre]

but the script in /etc/lp/interface (which is about 11K calls the script in /etc/lp/interface/model.orig (which is about 110K), so for each printer you have a total of 120~K.

[Pete Randall]

Marco,

There's no reference in Frank's attachment to /etc/lp/interface/model.orig (which, at 38737 1KB blocks, is about 38MB).

Pete

[fg_1]

Pete, this file is the same printer name but from the directory /etc/lp/interface.

[Marco Santerre]

Pete,

/etc/lp/interface/model.orig is a directory and it contains files of the same name of the printer that you also find in /etc/lp/interface. I'm no expert in Jetdirect, but I also have it installed and comparing the output with what I see here, and it's no different. That's why I'm saying, in the model.orig directory it's all scripts of about 110K, one for eahc pronter defined.

[Pete Randall]

Frank,

I think I'm finally getting the picture (sorry - a little slow on the uptake).

So, /etc/lp/interface/model.orig is a directory (not a file) which contains a *large* interface script for each of your printers. There is also a *small* interface script for each of these printers in the /etc/lp/interface directory. Is that true? It seems sinfully wasteful - must be an HP plot to sell larger disk drives.

How about replacing the entire /etc/lp/interface directory with a link to some other filesystem? That would transfer the burden out of your root filesystem and I think you would still be OK when booting in single user mode because there's no need for /etc/lp. Just a thought.

Pete

[fg_1]

sounds like a good thought pete, can you post a step by step proc to do that.

I would appreciate it.

Thanks again for all your assist and everyone else who assisted, enjoy the points posted.

[Pete Randall]

Frank,

God hates a coward (or so I'm told) - so I tried it myself:

tsws1(147)root# mkdir /var/lp
tsws1(148)root# cd /etc/lp
tsws1(149)root# find . -print |cpio -pdumxl /var/lp
294 blocks
tsws1(150)root# ll /var/lp
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 1024 Jan 8 11:49 cinterface
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 Jul 17 2001 class
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 Jul 17 2001 info
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 1024 Jan 8 11:49 interface
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 1024 Jan 8 11:49 member
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 1024 Jan 8 11:49 sinterface
tsws1(151)root# rm -rf /etc/lp
rm: directory /etc/lp not removed. Cannot remove current directory
tsws1(152)root# cd
tsws1(153)root# rm -rf /etc/lp
tsws1(154)root# ln -s /var/lp /etc/lp
tsws1(155)root# lp -d crlzr1 /etc/passwd
request id is crlzr1-111 (1 file)
tsws1(156)root#


I stuck it in /var because I had room but I expect you could put it most any place.

Pete

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

as said before I would also delete most of your older passwd.2001... and passwd.2002...
These files are growing with every new time stamp.
These seems to be backups from older passwd files.
There is no sense to keep them up.

Good luck
Volkmar

[fg_1]

Thanks again pete, you get the GOOD STAMP award for the day in my book.

Thanks for all the help

[Pete Randall]

You're very welcome, Frank. I'm just glad you didn't give up on it.

Pete

[Sorrel G. Jakins]

This may be a statement of the obvious, but did you use lsof? That many times has led me to the (largest) needle in the haystack.

Whilst you're at it, look for log files that can also fill your root fs.

Lots of Irish Luck to you.