/ out of space - what to do?

[jim lawrence]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:30:41 -0600, Syl <jkatz at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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How would one go about deleting all the stuff in /tmp   & /var/log ? 
to remove some applications try it using yum 
yum remove xemacs 

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Jim Lawrence
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