Re: Reclaiming Disk Space

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:25:41PM -0400, brett lyon wrote:
> Following your excellent advice, I found almost 300MB
> worth of left-overs in /var/.spool/up2date.

I presume you meant /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!

You are quite welcome.  We're here to help.

> 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.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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