Re: / out of space - what to do?
Syl 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?
"Add/Remove Packages" is badly flawed. Use
yum remove name-of-package
and it'll work a lot better.
>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.
Yes, but /usr, /var and /tmp are on your root filesystem. 90% of stuff
gets installed in /usr. Logs fill up /var. /tmp gets lots of cruft.
Putting them all on one filesystem is not a good idea. At the very
least, I recommend making /usr a separate filesystem. Actually, I use
separate file systems for the following:
/
/boot (sometimes, but not always)
swap (always!)
/usr
/var
/home
That's what I set up. It's based on 20+ years of Unix experience, but
it may not work for you.
Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not included.
Yada, yada. Do what you will.
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