Not Enough Disk Space to Restore on Root Partition

[Michael Johnson]

I'm using Parallels Small Business Panel but I figure it works the same way in Plesk.

I'm trying to restore a domain from backup files but it says I do not have enough disk space. My root partition is only 10GB in size. But I have larger partitions on the machine but the software is not taking those into account. I have moved /var/lib/psa, /var/qmail, /opt/psa, etc to another device and symlinked to them.

Do you know how I can fix this problem so I can complete the restore?

 

[IgorG]

Look at this option:

# grep HTTPD_VHOSTS_D /etc/psa/psa.conf
HTTPD_VHOSTS_D /var/www/vhosts

As you can see domain's vhosts files from backup will be placed here. So, make sure that there is enough diskspace on this partition.

 

[Michael Johnson]

/var/www/vhosts is now a symlink pointing to a folder on a partition with more space. However apparently the psa does not take that into account.

Do I have to mount /var onto a new partition? How do I do that?

 

[IgorG]

Just create mountpoint in /etc/fstab and re-mount /var to separate partition.

 

[Michael Johnson]

Since /var/ underneath the / partition on my system, what do I do? I have the larger drive mounted to /mnt do I copy all of the elements under /var to /mnt and then edit the fstab to change the /mnt mount to /var ?

 

[IgorG]

Re-mounting to other partition is usual Linux system operation and you can find a lot of recommendation with google. For example - http://outhereinthefield.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/moving-usr-var-to-another-partition/
I hope it will help.