[ale] / is 100%, how2 reduce ?

Jim Philips briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 23 20:14:06 EST 2006


On Thursday 23 November 2006 20:07, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Unless you've installed alot of stuff on the system, 20Gig should have a
> good bit free.  It's probably logs or temp space...
>
> Do 2 things.
>
> apt-get clean
>
> See how much you have free then cd to / and execute "du -sh *" and
> email it.  it will take a while to run.

Logs and temp files will definitely eat space, but do a search for core files 
too. In my production experience, they are more often the culprit when disk 
space suddenly drops.



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