Traci Collins wrote:
>
> I allocated 100mb to my root partition when I installed Mandrake 6.0
> and I seem to have filled it up with normal operation. Are there
> files which could be deleted or moved to another partition to create
> space on a pretty normal Mandrake install? Is there anyway to resize
> the root partition to give it more space? I have 2.8 gig in /usr and
> 1.8 gig in /usr/local, so I have the mbs to give it, they just aren't
> in the right place.
This is precisely the problem with partitioning without knowing
which way your partitons are going to be heading. I always
advise newcomers to Linux to simply create one giant partition
for everything, and another small one for swap. Once they have
experience with the system, they can redo it.
I am an ISP...and my needs are much different than those of
an office user, an intranet server, or a desktop workstation.
You will see a lot of advice on how to partition, but for the
most part it is bulls**t. You need to watch your use (do a
du for each subdirectory from root) and see how your use of
the computer stacks up. You can then redo your partitioning
as fits YOUR needs.
Most likely your trouble is with /var. It has probably
accumulated a lot of log files. Use the du command to
spot which is giving trouble. Here is a listing of my du
command on my personal workstation:
**root@amber[/root]# cd /
**root@amber[/]# du -s *
5025 bin
3083 boot
42 dev
2201 etc
563281 home
12302 lib
12 lost+found
1 misc
4 mnt
4699 opt
0 proc
1554 root
2756 sbin
1 scsi
145 tmp
883906 usr
26845 var
**root@amber[/]#
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