pwd.db too big for / partition

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:39:18AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Marcelo Maraboli wrote:
> >my / partition has only 73.196 Mbytes available and since I
> >have 22.000 users, I now cannot change anyone?s password..
> >
> >root at server:~$ passwd marcelo.maraboli
> >Changing local password for marcelo.maraboli
> >New Password:
> >Retype New Password:
> >
> >/: write failed, filesystem is full
> >pwd_mkdb: write old: No space left on device
> >passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
> >
> >How can I rezise the "/" partition or move the spwb.db
> >and pwd.db files to another partition ?? (each of them is 44 Mbytes)
> 
> You certainly don't want to move the password files out of /etc--  
> you'll render the machine unbootable as it needs to find them on the  
> root partition.  The only approach I see which is likely to be  
> workable would be to backup the system, repartition the disks with a  
> larger root partition, and restore from backups.

I agree.

> However, in theory, if you had free disk space, you could use growfs  
> to expand the root partition without repartitioning, but I am dubious  
> about using that command against /.

I believe, with growfs, the space that you add must be contiguous
with the partition it is joining.   So, unless there is a partition
that could be shrunk next to root, (maybe swap is there) it wouldn't work.
If there is room - maybe by mucking with swap if it is the next partition,
then it might be do-able.  But, I would also be leary of doing it with /.

////jerry

> 
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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