Re: Reclaiming Disk Space

["brett lyon" <lyon brett com>]

Following your excellent advice, I found almost 300MB
worth of left-overs in /var/.spool/up2date.  Having
recently upgraded to RH9 and then up2date failed to
update packages as there was not enough room, it left
about 57 heavy objects in the spool file. So I drained
them out and now my machine is both current and
breathing well.  

thanks again!


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:10:19 -0500, Bob McClure Jr
wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 05:46:42PM -0400, brett lyon
> wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have a few good tips on how to recover
> > disk space? I am at 96% on my main partition and
would
> > like to get some of that space back so I am:
> > 
> > -deleting unwanted files in my home directory
> > -uninstalling unwanted packages like opera etc.
> > 
> > Can I also delete old kernels?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > How?
> 
>   rpm -q kernel
> 
> to get a listing of the currently installed kernels. 
> Then, to
> uninstall the old ones,
> 
>   rpm -e kernel-<version>
> 
> Do a "uname -r" to see which kernel you are running to
> make sure you
> don't try to remove a running kernel.  I suppose it
> won't let you, but
> I've not tried, either.
> 
> > I have been looking
> > for a good doc on how to save/recover disk space but
> > have not found a good to-the-point writing yet. 
> > 
> > thanks
> > brett
> > 
> > Registered Linux user #301116.
> 
> Aside from unneeded packages, the next places to look
> for trash are in
> /tmp (although the system does a pretty good job of
> cleaning that
> out), and /var/log.  logrotate should be doing a
pretty
> good job of
> rotating out logs and leaving some archived.
> 
> The best way to look for disk hogs is to start at the
> root directory
> and 
> 
>   du -s *
> 
> That will give you the summaries of disk usage (du). 
> Then drill down
> (cd) to the biggest subdirectory and
> 
>   du -s *
> 
> again.  Don't bother with /usr.  It has the lion's
> share of installed
> RPMs.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
> A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.
> 
> 
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