On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:57, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd > appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through > a fix for this, if possible. > > The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / > partition. Haven't installed any programs in the interim other than a > urpmi update (which still left me showing most of that 1 gig free), but > as of this a.m. I'm showing zero free space during boot-up and cannot > get into Mandrake. I would suspect some dump or errant log file, no? I > tried logging in as root and doing a logrotate from the CLI (based on > advice I'd seen given in an earlier thread here), but apparently I'm > missing something in that equation, as a logrotate -f did nothing ... do > I need to specify a path argument there, as well, and if so, what? Any > other suggestions? Is /tmp safe to delete from willy-nilly? Other > things to look for? > > Any help appreciated so that I can at least get back in and work on this > from within the GUI (so, again, please dumb-down appropriately any > responses that require me using the CLI, if you'd be so kind). > > Thanks.
If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up. Yes you can delete stuff in /tmp as well as anything in ~/tmp (your home tmp folder), and can delete any core dump files you find (they are named 'core.xxx' ) You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log To make logrotate run use the command logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf Too help you in the future it is a good idea to install Midnight Commander (urpmi mc) so you can navigate the file system in the command line. Installing anacron (urpmi anacron) will ensure your log files and /tmp folder do not fill up in the future by ensuring logrotate gets run daily. Once you have X running again fsv (in contrib) is great for visualising where all your disc space has gone. hth derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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