Areas that can be cleared out on Redhat Machine

[Chris St. Pierre]

>From /, you can also run:

du -shx *

This will take a while, but it will tell you the total size of each
root subfolder.  Once you figure that, e.g., /usr is taking up most of
your space, you can cd into /usr and run it again.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University


On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Gareth Llewellyn wrote:

>This will find all files over 500mb:
>
>find / -mount -type f -size +1000000 -ls
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>Just checked in /var/spool/mail and i only had one small file in there. Any
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>Try checking /var/spool/mail
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>I have a Redhat machine which is getting to full capacity on the / root
>partition. I have removed things in /var/log but it did not really clear
>allot of space. Could someone tell me what other areas i can look at
>clearing out?
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>Regards
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