Pretty clever, John, that's not an intuitive fix!

Another fix is to copy some of the stuff of the full partition to a directory in a partition that has space and use symbolic links to that directory.

Say you run out of '/usr/local' room. Create '/someotherpartion/usr/local' with the same permissions and ownerships as /usr/local, copy the contents of /usr/local to the new 'local' directory. Delete /usr/local & its contents and replace it with a symbolic link.
/usr/local --> /someotherpartion/usr/local
/usr now has more room because the stuff in /usr/local is really in /someotherpartition/urs/local. Apps never know the difference.
JLK


>Hi,
>
>I rebooted my RH 7.2. X windows did not return and gave a error of
>"Could not open default font 'fixed' ". I also noticed that Postgres failed to start. I discovered that the the line "FontPath" in XF86Config-4 contained the following:
>FontPath "unix:7900"
>
>I replaced the line with:
>FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
>
>I found that line in my other RH 7.1 and it was working.
>
>Next I discovered that the filesystem "/" was full. I remove plenty and got it
>back to 90%.
>
>Now the system boots and Postgres starts.
>
>If anybody knows how to expand the "/" filesystem let me know (short of re-install).
>
>John