Switch to Different Filesystem
I Am Relatively New to Linux, but Am Working on a Remote Server. It Says I Have a Quota, and Shows the Following Filesystem Blocks Quota Limit Grace Files...
I am relatively new to linux, but am working on a remote server. It says i have a quota, and shows the following
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/sda7 4756320* 4194304 5242880 02:51 72897 0 0
/dev/sda8 48 41943040 52428800 88 0 0
This seems to me that sda7 is full, but sda8 is not. How can i switch to sda8? I tried cd /dev/sda8, but it says: Not a directory.
1 Answer
First check if you already have a mount created for this by running df -h. If not then continue
You cannot change directories because it is not a directory. /dev/sd* is simply the representation of SCSI partitions on your storage device.
Before you can use this you need to do the following if this partition has not had a filesystem created for it. This assumes you are wanting to access this partition to store other data on rather than resizing current partition
mkfs.ext4 -L /dev/sda8
mkdir /mnt/*directory*
mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/*directory*
This makes your partition usable by creating a filesystem for it and then mounting it so you are now able to cd into the /mnt directory you created.
If you want to reallocate your system partition that will need to be done on a live USB or CD as you should not modify the partition you are currently running on.
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