/ out of space - what to do?

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0600, Syl <jkatz at sasktel.net> 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?
> 
> thanks
> Syl
> 

Syl,

Sorry I'm late... but there's one point that hasn't been touched here.
If you just keeping updating, you probably have a large number of
kernels installed that you don't use or need. Each kernel occupies a
large space. To get a list of the installed kernels, do
> rpm -q kernel
> rpm -q kernel-smp

Also, to know which kernel is being currently used, do
> uname -r

then you can remove the old unused kernels by (as root)
> rpm -e <<kernel name>>

where <<kernel name>> is the name you get from the 'rpm -q' commands
above. Just remember to keep one old kernel (other than the one in use
currently) just as a safeguard.

Also, you may turn on automatic yum updates. Then, edit the file
'yum.cron' that will be in the /etc/cron.daily folder to:
#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
        /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
        /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
        /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -yC clean packages
fi

The added last line (before the 'fi', of course) will make sure yum
cleans after itself everytime.

HTH, and good luch with your research. 

 

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