On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 10:34, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > I is rather not a 100% laptop question but it is due to the small storage > device on my laptop (30 GB on IBM T40). > I partitioned my harddrive and left 11GB for my / directory. My home > directory holds more or less 3 GB, nevertheless do I get into trouble at the > moment because the partition is full. > What is filling my / directory? and how do I get rid of these files? The > operating system does definitely not use +/- 8 GB because I previously > removed many packages and nothing happened.
Check with 'du -s /* | sort -n' where most space is being used, drill down from there. Try running 'apt-get clean' as root to cleanup old packages Run a find for large files 'find / -size +100000000c' -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl
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