/ (root) partition full

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:52 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote:

> Hi, Anyone
>     Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box. 
>   (My wife is paranoid that way.)  KDiskFree showed my root partition a 
> bit over 50% full.  Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago, 
> it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit.  The 
> file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if 
> that makes a difference.  Has anyone run into this?  Is there a tool I 
> can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify 
> the cause?  I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that 
> only recovered about 350 mB;  I'm still missing some 5 gig.
>     Cheers,
> Gordon Keehn

Did you do any updates since you've turned on the computer? How many
kernels do you have installed?

rpm -qa | grep kernel

If you have more than one, 

cd /lib/modules
du -s | sort -nr

and you will see how much space each of the kernels occupies. Uninstall
the ones you no longer use.