/usr directory full - move /usr/share/doc ?

dibello

• July 27, 2016 11:03

greetings... /usr directory needs appx 100 mb to enable a cPanel update I've already cleaned up log files etc... I'm thinking of moving the doc directory ( /usr/share/doc ) to another partition. Since I'm relatively new to this game, any feedback on whether or not the following commands will sucessfully achieve my goal would be greatly appreciated. # mkdir -p /home/usr/share/doc # mv /usr/share/doc/* /home/usr/share/doc # rmdir /usr/share/doc # ln -sfn /home/usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 27, 2016 17:16

  Hello, I don't suggest adding a symbolic link for paths within the /usr partition. Are you sure there are no other directories with files that are not required? The following document can help you to determine what's taking up the most space in this partition:

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  dibello

  • July 27, 2016 17:41

  Yea. I've already done everything else. I'm just curious as to whether or not the commands are accurate...

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 27, 2016 17:57

  Yea. I've already done everything else. I'm just curious as to whether or not the commands are accurate...

  
  Yes, those commands would work, however I suggest copying the entire directory in your initial commands if you choose to take this action. EX:
  mkdir -p /home/usr/share/ cp -a /usr/share/doc /home/usr/share/
  Note that linking directories from /usr to /home is not supported. Thank you.

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  dibello

  • July 27, 2016 18:03

  I was going to move the doc directory. not the entire share directory. You are suggesting that I should copy the entire share directory?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 27, 2016 18:09

  New I was going to move the doc directory. not the entire share directory. You are suggesting that I should copy the entire share directory?

  
  No, just the "/usr/share/doc" directory. The first command simply matches the directory structure in /home. Notice the "cp" command only copies "/usr/share/doc" itself. Thank you.

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  dibello

  • July 27, 2016 18:13

  got it... copy instead of move. thanks.

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  twhiting9275

  • July 27, 2016 20:40

  Take a look at why /usr is so full. This shouldn't be happening, of course. You've mentioned logs, make sure you clean out /usr/local/apache/logs /usr/local/cpanel/logs Your commands in the original post should do just fine :)

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  dibello

  • July 27, 2016 20:44

  thanks for the feedback twhiting9275 yea ... all those logs are removed.

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  dibello

  • July 27, 2016 23:58

  OK. so I went forward with everything. Copied the directory, removed the old directory, ran ln -sfn /home/usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc. Is there a way to test the symbolic link? when I attempted to cd to /usr/share/doc via command line, thinking the link would show the contents of /home/usr/share/doc... I received the "No such file or directory" error Looking at the contents of /usr/share/ via ConfigServer Explorer cPanel plugin does not show an alias. Using Mac terms here. Is a symbolic link visible?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 28, 2016 17:50

  Please post the output from the following command:
  stat /usr/share/doc
  Thank you.

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  dibello

  • July 28, 2016 17:54

  File: `/usr/share/doc' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 306h/774d Inode: 356577 Links: 51 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2016-07-28 04:03:04.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2016-07-27 21:09:45.000000000 -0400 Change: 2016-07-27 21:09:45.000000000 -0400

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  twhiting9275

  • July 28, 2016 23:22

  So, with moving all of that, did this help your problem? What's the disk usage on /usr/ now?

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  dibello

  • July 28, 2016 23:37

  absolutely. was able to update to 11.48.5.3 initially, which activated the option for alternate staging directory. then I decided to go to 11.50.6.2. not sure I'm going any higher as I'm running CentOS 5. and there is 3.1 GB available on usr. thanks for all your help.

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