Steve Brorens wrote: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda8 256667 256584 0 100% / > /dev/hda1 54416 9690 41917 19% /boot > /dev/hda6 1636544 7072 1546340 1% /home > /dev/hda5 1636544 821732 731680 53% /usr > /dev/hda7 256667 41814 201601 18% /var > none 30860 0 30860 0% /dev/shm > > I remember getting advice some time ago on the smart use of 'du' and > finding out that there's no easy way to strip all the GUI stuff out (I > installed it all initially, but I just telnet into this box, so it's all > unused - just taking up space) ...but I've forgotten all that so maybe > I'll just schedule to rebuild from scratch sometime with RH 7.3 (of which > I have a full set of CD's), taking care to go down the text-only path...
I'm not enlightened in the Redhat Way but I seem to recall that most of X ends up under /usr so going text-only might not help you much. Now that I think about it there might be a whole load of X stuff under /opt (eg KDE, Gnome). This might be the major source of your trouble as there's not generally much outside of /lib, /home, /var and /usr. Try looking in /tmp and make sure there's nothing hogging space in there. If there's no alternative, here's what I do when running out of space on one partition: Create a directory on another partition which has lots of free space, and copy a big tree off the full partition into there. Then delete it off the full partition and symlink the copy back to its original location. For example I once placed my Squid cache under /home/squid in this way, with /usr/local/squid symlinked to /home/squid so I didn't need to change any scripts or config files. I recommend caution when doing this as moving/deleting files which are currently in use may be disastrous. BTW you need to be careful to preserve file ownerships and permissions. Check these before deleting the original files! I learned the hard way, when moving /home of all things... "cp -aR" may or may not be good enough. A quick test shows that it seems to work, but YMMV... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
