/ out of space - what to do?

[Edward Moon]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:12:02 +1000, Neil Dugan
<fedora at butterflystitches.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:09 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> > 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
> >
> 

Deleting old kernels & related files won't help the OP since the
kernels aren't on the / partition.

>From the original email, a separate /boot partition is shown in the df output.

I would suggest you take a look at the contents of your /var
directory. I recall that yum stores header files & rpms somewhere
under there. Deleting old rpm files should free up space on the /
partition.