serge_moscou wrote:
> hello
>
> my very small (600mb) root partition on my file server
> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>
> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?
>

usually the following directories should be checked:
/tmp
/var/log (maybe, you can dump older log messages)

Greetings Harald

Harald Finster wrote:

> usually the following directories should be checked:
> /tmp
> /var/log (maybe, you can dump older log messages)

I tend to use separate partitions for /tmp and /var and /home. My root
filesystem is only 120Mb, and it never fills up.

Here is a df from a Debian machine:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 109565 60349 43370 59% /
/dev/hda1 28305 6810 19985 26% /boot
/dev/hda6 594609 109 562775 1% /tmp
/dev/hda5 594609 172026 390858 31% /home
/dev/hda7 74879384 41743112 29332564 59% /volumes/vol7a

/usr and /var are symlinks to mounted partitions (currently in /volumes/vol7a)

/dev/hda3 is a recovery filesystem (alternate root), which is not mounted, but
it is also only 120Mb in size.

Regards,

Mark.

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serge_moscou wrote:

> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?

Hello Serge,

I would recommend you to use a "du -h | grep -v /home" in order to display
disk usage of your directories, excluding /home (you may add more of these
exclusions by adding f.ex. "|grep -v /usr"), this way you will get an
overview of which directories are filling up your HD.

A more comfortable way is the File size view plugin in Konqueror (kdeaddons3
package).

Hope this helps,
Hendric
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serge_moscou wrote:

> hello
>
> my very small (600mb) root partition on my file server
> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>
> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?
>
>
> Thank you

If you don't need sendmail, remove it. I find that it randomly creates huge
files in /var/log and it crashes my system when it runs out of hard drive
space



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serge_moscou wrote:

> hello
>
> my very small (600mb) root partition on my file server
> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>
> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?
>
>
> Thank you

Funny how you didn't copy/paste the subject as well as the body to a.o.l.s.

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