Filled up the filesystem. How?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 6/8/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:57 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Yes, when I checked the directory tree I check /tmp. It is empty. As
> > about the only thing that I can do on this machine is browse the web,
> > I have been looking for a command that will show me all large
> > files/directories. I thought that df would do it, but man doesn't seem
> > to know of any option that would do this. Nor does google!
> >
> > How does one go about searching for bloat? All the obvious (logs, tmp,
> > yum clean all) leave no hints.
> 
> If you're looking for bloat I guess you mean large packages that are
> worth removing. Try this (all one line):
> 
> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort -rn >
> bloat.txt
> 
> The resulting file bloat.txt will be a list of all of your RPM packages,
> sorted by the amount of disk space they use, biggest at the top. Look
> down that list for packages you don't use and "rpm -e" them. If you're
> not sure what a package is, try "rpm -qi packagename" to find out. If
> another package has a dependency on the one you're trying to remove, rpm
> will tell you about it.
> 
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 


I just did Paul's:

> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort -rn >
> bloat.txt

and it wasn't hard to figure out how to add up all the disk space. The
biggest packages are:
449899240 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.4-0.2.kde
155003743 openoffice.org-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde
122472528 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde
98835391 AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1
79886968 Omni-0.9.2-1.1
59179686 j2re-1.4.2-11.1.fc3.rf
56605520 emacs-common-21.3-21.FC3
54976367 wine-20041201-1fc3winehq
50344454 glibc-common-2.3.5-0.fc3.1

but the total came out to almost 4 gigs! Thats for 941 packages! What
can I remove? Obviously I don't want to remove OpenOffice or Adobe
Reader. I suppose that I could do without j2re, and I don't exactly
remember what Omni is.

I put the list up at http://dotancohen.com/bloat.txt if anyone cares
to take a look and advise me. Things like glibc-common have no meaning
to me whatsoever, but googleing around led me to believe that lots of
things will break if I remove it.

I would wait and install FC4, but we need this computer daily. Thanks friends.

Dotan
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