/ (root) partition full
Amadeus W. M.
amadeus84 at cablespeed.com
Fri Jan 13 16:44:34 UTC 2006
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:52 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
> Hi, Anyone
> Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box.
> (My wife is paranoid that way.) KDiskFree showed my root partition a
> bit over 50% full. Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago,
> it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit. The
> file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if
> that makes a difference. Has anyone run into this? Is there a tool I
> can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify
> the cause? I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that
> only recovered about 350 mB; I'm still missing some 5 gig.
> Cheers,
> Gordon Keehn
Did you do any updates since you've turned on the computer? How many
kernels do you have installed?
rpm -qa | grep kernel
If you have more than one,
cd /lib/modules
du -s | sort -nr
and you will see how much space each of the kernels occupies. Uninstall
the ones you no longer use.
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