On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 05:56:23PM +0100, andy wrote:
> My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full.
> How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should
> I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed
> safely?
The du utility, as well as find's size flag, are your friends. It could
be lots of things, but the most common culprits IMHO are:
- not having a separate /var and /tmp partition
- packages that use /opt or /srv, which are rarely on a separate
partition
- cruft in ~root
- GUI file deletion tools that use trash directories
- unlinked open files on a non-separate /usr directory (e.g. doing a
massive dist-upgrade without a reboot)
As a point of comparison, my root partition is only using 330MB, so you
definitely have some work ahead of you. :)
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