[ale] df help

[Geoffrey]

At this point I'd suggest looking at your installed software and 
deciding what you don't need.  You're already identified the games are 
taking up quite a bit of space.

Consider the other recommendations made like /usr/src/linux* and the www 
stuff.

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> The quest for space continues. I tried uninstalling a few packages (like 
> postgr) and have gotten up to a wopping 26% free space. This install would 
> simply *not* work on the hard drives that I use for Windows 98. I feel like I 
> am missing something - like there is an extra gig lying around.
> 
> ]$ du -m / /.[^.]?* --max-depth=4 |sort -rn  > /data/filesize.txt
> 
> 5592	/
> 4394	/usr
> 1502	/usr/local
> 1423	/usr/local/games
> 1106	/usr/share
> 1083	/usr/lib
> 905	/usr/local/games/Descent3
> 519	/usr/local/games/ut
> 514	/proc
> 338	/usr/share/doc
> 202	/usr/bin
> 200	/usr/X11R6
> 200	/data/see/Kappa
> 126	/lib
> 122	/usr/X11R6/lib
> 118	/usr/src/linux-2.4.9-34
> 118	/usr/src
> 116	/usr/share/fonts
> 107	/lib/modules
> 101	/usr/lib/aspell
> 91	/var
> 89	/usr/lib/xemacs
> 81	/usr/src/linux-2.4.9-34/drivers
> 80	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> 80	/usr/lib/gcc-lib
> 74	/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages
> 74	/mp3
> 
> On Friday 16 August 2002 07:56, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>
>>>]$ df
>>>Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>>/dev/hda2              7147292   5281260   1502964  78% /
>>>/dev/hda1                46636     16901     27327  39% /boot
>>>/dev/hda3              1612840    343856   1187056  23% /data
>>>none                    256488         0    256488   0% /dev/shm
>>>
>>>Does this look about right to you?
>>
>>So far so good.  We'll try and work this down to identifying the
>>problem.  So, we know / is 78% full, so now do this:
>>
>>du -s -h /* |sort -n
>>
>>And post this info to the list.
>>
>>
>>>Drew
>>
> 


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