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On 01/10/2015 15:02, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 151001 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>>> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. |
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>>> df -h |
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>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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>>> /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / |
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>>> I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles . |
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>> 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. |
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>> that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff. |
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>> My system shows : |
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>> root:505 ~> df -h |
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>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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>> 802 30G 6.4G 24G 22% / |
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>> tmpfs 395M 516K 395M 1% /run |
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>> dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev |
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>> none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm |
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>> cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup |
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>> /dev/sda5 30G 12G 19G 40% /home |
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>> /dev/sda6 15G 6.7G 8.4G 45% /usr/portage |
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>> /dev/sda7 40G 8.1G 32G 21% /z |
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>> /dev/sdb1 9.8G 3.5G 6.3G 36% /usr/local |
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>> /dev/sdb5 9.8G 1.6G 8.3G 16% /usr/src |
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>> tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp |
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>> /z is a large hangar space for handling very big files. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Yes, I used: |
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> du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10 |
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> and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb |
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Junk can accumulate in hundreds of places, it all depends how you set |
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the host up. These are often culprits: |
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/home/* |
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/tmp/ |
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/var/tmp/portage |
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/usr/src |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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