/ out of space - what to do?

[Syl]

> 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.

I have done that. /tmp and /var/log are not very big. The culprit seems to
be packages in /usr/share like xemacs which I never use. I have only been
installing/removing packages from the 'Add Remove Packages' tool. It no
longer seems to works properly - now all it does is give me a long list of
packages that are not installed and tell me that I cannot uninstall the
packages I requested to be uninstalled.

How do I manually remove packages like xemacs which I don't use?

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

Hmmm - not sure what you mean. /home and /data which are in separate
partitions.