[ale] / 70% full

[Lightner, Jeff]

Usually I do a 'find / -name core" first to make sure there aren't any large core dumps files from aborted processes.  Doing "file core" on any found will show you what it was that aborted and give the signal (usually sigsegv) that caused the abort.   If it is fairly old I usually just delete it.   Anything more recent I might delve into to figure out why it died.

Also I do a 'find / -name "*.tar"' to see if there are any large tar bundles.   Often running gzip or other compression on them will get back space.

After that I usually look in /tmp and /var/tmp first to be sure there aren't old temporary files that can go away.

Next I look to see if any logs have gotten unusually large.   (Be sure NOT to delete a log file until you've verified it is not "open" by a process (losf <logfile> will tell you if it is.)   In such a case you can truncate but not delete (or you can stop the process, delete then restart the process).

Doing the find Leam mentions is a good way to find large files.  Just be sure you don't automatically delete anything until you know what it is.

On our systems I separate out /tmp, /var, /usr, /opt and any application/database directories so as to avoid filling / itself.




-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of leam hall
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:19 AM
To: Paul Cartwright; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] / 70% full

yum clean all

du -k / | sort -n > /tmp/du.root
  tail -10 /tmp/du.root

find / -size +4000 -exec ls -l {} \;



On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, this isn't an urgent issue ( yet).. my fedora 20 root partition is
> 72% full. I gave it 20GB ( you will never need more than that,
> right;-0) and right now it has 5.1Gb free, with 14GB used.. on another
> partition I just installed openSUSE in a similar 20GB root, and it is
> only 32% full, and that is with both MATE & KDE installed..
> what could I look to remove ?? does fedora keep all copies of software
> installed somewhere that I can delete?? is there some creeping files
> that grow?? am I missing something?
>
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