/ out of space - what to do?

[Rick Stevens]

Syl wrote:
> I am running FC2 and I have been keeping my updates current. Recently, I ran
> out of space on / and I can no longer do any updates. I have checked
> /var/log files, etc and everything appears to be in order. Here is a df of
> my system
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb2              4031560   3764916     61844  99% /
> /dev/hdb1                99043     24529     69400  27% /boot
> /dev/hdb6             20181400   8096684  11059532  43% /data
> /dev/hdb5              1007960     61404    895352   7% /home
> 
> What should I do?

Try clearing old stuff out of /tmp and /var/log.  Clean up your yum
cache ("yum clean all").  As for the rest, do some selective "du -h"
operations in various directories under "/", see what's sucking up the
space and clean out that which seems appropriate.

Just another reason it's really a bad idea to have a monolithic "/"
filesystem.
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