Re: Root partition full

2007-07-31 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote: > > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root > > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? > > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any > > other way to clean the / partition. I don't

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-16 Thread helices
* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007:07:15:18:57:13+0300] scribed: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help. > > Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries > > thems

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help. > Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries > themselves (4.0K, 8.0K, etc), rather than the cumulative size of the > files inside the

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-15 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote: > > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root > > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? This is one of the reasons to keep a Linux live CD, like Knoppix, PCLinix

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:35, andy wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > What about using apt-get autoclean > > As an experiment, I ran apt-get clean and it removed some 2G of files, > which would help the OP clear out some breathing space. I don't know > enough to consider whether or not autocl

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-15 Thread andy
Thierry Chatelet wrote: What about using apt-get autoclean As an experiment, I ran apt-get clean and it removed some 2G of files, which would help the OP clear out some breathing space. I don't know enough to consider whether or not autoclean would clear out more than that though.

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
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Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 18:36, Max Hyre wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. > > Also look at /var/archives. /var/cache/archives? > Since I moved from etch to unstable, > something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each da

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:36:17PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. > >Also look at /var/archives. Since I moved from etch to unstable, > something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day. > I've just

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Max Hyre
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. Also look at /var/archives. Since I moved from etch to unstable, something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day. I've just been nuking them because I'm too lazy to look up who's generating

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote: > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any > other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 14 July 2007 23:32, Mastery wrote: > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any > other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree (resolved)

2004-09-06 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in September John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced: | I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The | problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I | goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is | about

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:28:20AM -0400, John Harrold wrote: > I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem > is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and > run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I > woul

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
John Harrold wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would expect. Now If I run 'df' it says the partition

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I g

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem >is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and >run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of > John Harrold told: > > > I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem > > is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: > I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem > is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and > run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I > wo

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:28:20 -0400 John Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem >is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and >run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about wha

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Harrold wrote: | I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. | The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the | space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are Hi John! Maybe you can use 'du -sh

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in September Jan Kesten assaulted the keyboard and produced: Howdy Jan, | Maybe you can use 'du -sh *' in / to look, where the space is gone. | Mostly you can have /var/log filled with some logs etc. It's weird, but /var and the rest of the stuff on the root partition only seem to be us