Thomas - My apologies for posting to the plug-jobs email list. I typed plug into the To field, clicked the drop down email address menu in gmail and fired.
Thank you all for your words of wisdom, tools, and commands. I used Austin's command to determine that /var and /var/log were the two largest users of hard drive space. I found 3 1GB log files (syslog, kernel.log, and messages). I archived them and moved them into /home. I deleted those logs, but it wasn't until after a reboot that "df -h" reported 3.9 GBs free in "/". On my own system and other commercial systems I'm use to having separate /usr /var and /tmp dirs that way if those dirs fill up, you still have a functional system while you sort out the disk space. I guess what I didn't and still don't understand is that my friend's system has a 400 GB drive and only 200 GB was used by /home by all 9.2 GB of "/" was being used. So am I to understand that when you don't have a separate /usr /var/ and /tmp dirs that all of those files are stored in "/" ? Also, what's interesting to me is that a non-custom partition table only allocates 10 GB for everything that doesn't get stored in /home. Even on a 430 GB hard drive. Am I understanding that correctly? Dumb question time. I don't suppose there's a way to symlink those dirs to a space in the /home dir to avoid this problem in the future is there? Thanks again for all of your help! Cheers, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
