On 01/10/2015 15:02, [email protected] wrote: > On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 151001 [email protected] 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. > > Thanks. > Yes, I used: > du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10 > > and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb
Junk can accumulate in hundreds of places, it all depends how you set the host up. These are often culprits: /home/* /tmp/ /var/tmp/portage /usr/src -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
