[ale] / directory full

[Mike Millson]

Danny,

Following your advice, I found I lot of files related to old kernels in
/lib/modules. I removed them, and now I have some room to spare!

Thank you,
Mike

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 12:58, Danny Cox wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:00, Mike Millson wrote:
> > 1) How do I know what directories are under "/"? 
> 
> 	Try:
> 
> 		du -x | sort -rn | more 
> 
> 			-OR-
> 
> 		du -x | sort -rn | sed 50q >large_dirs
> 
> 	The du command prints out sizes of files, and the sum of the files and
> dirs for each dir.  The sort -rn reverse numerically sorts, so the big
> ones float to the top.  The sed 50q stops at 50 lines.  If you can't
> find a directory to clean up in the first 50 lines, you're out of luck
> anyway.
> 
> > 2) Any suggestions for files to delete to free up space? 
> 
> 	It depends on what's full.  Anything in /tmp or /var/tmp is game, but
> you gotta be careful of running programs.  The *safest* way would be to
> reboot into single user mode, and clean out /tmp and /var/tmp.  
> 
> 	Run the above command, and post the first few (~20) lines of output to
> ALE, and we'll make suggestions, if it's apparent.  Of course, there may
> be the odd person who'll tell you to remove /etc/passwd or
> /etc/xinetd.d/* or some foolishness.  We'll trust that you'll know to
> ignore them ;-).



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