free up some disk space

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:42:59 -0500, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:10:28PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Well, according to df I have used up about 7 of the 8 gigs I have
> > allocated to linux on my disk. I don't have any more to allocate from
> > the windows partion, so I ask what can I erase to free up some space.
> >
> > My /home directory takes up about 700 megs, even though when I add up
> > all the unhidden files, I only get up to about 200 megs. I have half a
> > gig in hidden files?!? How can I  figure out where the bloat is and
> > get rid of it?
> >
> > And that means that my fedora installation, with no servers, is over 6 gigs?
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks.
> >
> 
> Hi Dotan,
> Please post the output of the "df -h" command:
> 
> This will tell us (and you) how much disk space is used up on each
> partition of your linux system.
> 
> Another command to post the result of is the du command:
> "cd /; du -shal *"
> 
> (both should be done as "root")
> 
> This second command will give you the sizes of things like tmp, var and
> usr.  Most of the space used is probably in your "usr" hierarchy.
> 
> Its probably not bloat, but you may have installed things you don't
> really need.  I have been able to get an FC2 install to fit on a
> "mere" 3.2 GB system but it wasn't an "everything" install.
> 
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No, I didn't chose 'everything' when I installed.

The when I did du -shal * I got
du: cannot both summarize and show all entries

so I did du * and got an output that was too long to copy. I'm going
to go googleing to find out how to output it to a file (pipe, no).

In the meantime this is what came of df -h:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      9.9G  7.1G  2.3G  76% /
/dev/hda2              99M   16M   79M  17% /boot
none                  237M     0  237M   0% /dev/shm

So, I have 10 and not 8 gig! But I'd still like to clean it up a bit...

Dotan Cohen

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