151001 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / > I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles .
'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff. My system shows : root:505 ~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 802 30G 6.4G 24G 22% / tmpfs 395M 516K 395M 1% /run dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda5 30G 12G 19G 40% /home /dev/sda6 15G 6.7G 8.4G 45% /usr/portage /dev/sda7 40G 8.1G 32G 21% /z /dev/sdb1 9.8G 3.5G 6.3G 36% /usr/local /dev/sdb5 9.8G 1.6G 8.3G 16% /usr/src tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp /z is a large hangar space for handling very big files. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
