On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:52:37AM -0700, Michael Lewis wrote:
> Output of ls -l is:
[...]
Oh, you meant your home directory, not "root"? Just to clarify some
terms: The directory your own stuff is in is your home directory, to
which some people also refer as $HOME (because the environment variable
$HOME contains its location), whereas the root directory is "/", i.e.
the topmost of all directories. And the home directory of the user
"root" is /root - or was that what you meant?
> I had already deleted the core files and there is still not room according
> to rpm.
Right. You still haven't told us what output "df" yields... Problem is:
I have no idea about how your hard drive is partitioned, hence, it's
difficult to judge where you need to free up space. So, how is your box
set up? One big partition with all the stuff on it? In that case,
freeing up space in /tmp will make room in /usr as well. If you have
separate partitions, you need to find out which directory is on which
partition. In case you're not sure:
df
on its own will list all partitions and the space used/free on them.
That has to be the start.
df SOME_DIRECTORY
will list the used/free space of the partition that directory happens to
be on. This means for example that if you have one big partition for
all, "df /tmp" and "df /usr" should produce the same output.
If you want to check how much space a particular directory uses, cd into
that directory and use "du" (stands for "disk usage").
Now, there shouldn't be anything you need to delete in all of /usr, as
an ordinary user does not have write access to it. Hence, the crash
shouldn't have produced any "extra" files in /usr - *unless* you've been
working as "root" all the time (i.e. also when doing the GIMP work you
mentioned), which is a bad thing for this very reason.
So, to be able to help you further, I need to know at the very minimum
the output of "df" as well as the output of "du -s /tmp" and
"du -s /var/tmp". The last two will tell how much space those two
directories use.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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