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On Saturday 14 July 2007 23:32, Mastery wrote:
> I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root
> partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
> Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any
> other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is full
> since all the applications are stored in my home partition
It's worth having a look in /var/cache/apt/archives. You may find a load of
files there that were downloaded when doing apt-get dist-upgrades. these
files are not really needed anymore so doing an apt-get clean will give you a
bunch of spare harddrive space.
Nigel.
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote:
> I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root
> partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
> Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any
> other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is full
> since all the applications are stored in my home partition
This is a big reason to have more than /, swap, and /home.
Boot up in single-user. If there isn't enough disk space for that, boot
up in init=/bin/sh and mount your filesystem read-only (so that it
doesn't get atimes updated or any other attempts to write to a full
device). If you can, activate swap and get /tmp on tmpfs to give you
something to shuffle with.
Since its all one big fs, df won't help much but run it anyway to see
how full things are after this fresh reboot.
Since /usr can be mounted ro, its only supposed to change when you
add/remove/update packages, so there should be no surprises under /usr.
Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. The FHS says that files
in /var/cache "is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or
calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the
data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data
loss.
Then check in /home. If you find any really big files, see if you can
gzip them up to save space. If there are big directories, perhaps
tarball them.
Once you get enough room to work, you can reboot into single-user mode
and run your normal backup routine. Then decide where to prune to get a
sane system again.
Good luck.
Doug.
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache.
Also look at /var/archives. Since I moved from etch to unstable,
something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day.
I've just been nuking them because I'm too lazy to look up who's
generating them. I really should do that...
It's no biggie in my case, because /var's a separate partition.
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:36:17PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache.
>
> Also look at /var/archives. Since I moved from etch to unstable,
> something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day.
> I've just been nuking them because I'm too lazy to look up who's
> generating them. I really should do that...
>
> It's no biggie in my case, because /var's a separate partition.
>
My Etch doesn't have a /var/archives. What does Sid's FHS have to say
about it?
Doug.
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On Sat July 14 2007 18:36, Max Hyre wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache.
>
> Also look at /var/archives.
/var/cache/archives?
> Since I moved from etch to unstable,
> something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day.
> I've just been nuking them because I'm too lazy to look up who's
> generating them. I really should do that...
That's probably aptitude. Those are all the software you've installed and/or
updated, in the case of unstable there will be lots of updating.. :)
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What about using apt-get autoclean....
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Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> What about using apt-get autoclean....
>
>
As an experiment, I ran apt-get clean and it removed some 2G of files,
which would help the OP clear out some breathing space. I don't know
enough to consider whether or not autoclean would clear out more than
that though.
A
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On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:35, andy wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > What about using apt-get autoclean....
>
> As an experiment, I ran apt-get clean and it removed some 2G of files,
> which would help the OP clear out some breathing space. I don't know
> enough to consider whether or not autoclean would clear out more than
> that though.
>
> A
>
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See man apt-get for the differences
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> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote:
> > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root
> > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
This is one of the reasons to keep a Linux live CD, like Knoppix,
PCLinixOS, DSL, toms, etc, around.
Since you have /home in a separate partition, 7Gig for everything else
should be enough. Cleaning out the used .DEBs will help, if your
upgrade method doesn't already do that.
I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help.
Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries
themselves (4.0K, 8.0K, etc), rather than the cumulative size of the
files inside the directory which I was hoping for. Maybe someone else
has a suggestion.
Google pointed me to something called "Swiss File Knife",
http://stahlforce.com/dev/index.php?tool=stat
which seems to do what I want, but "sfk" isn't in the Debian archives
so I didn't try it out.
Curt-
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help.
> Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries
> themselves (4.0K, 8.0K, etc), rather than the cumulative size of the
> files inside the directory which I was hoping for. Maybe someone else
> has a suggestion.
du -xh --max-depth=1 will do the trick, but you will need to do it as
root, otherwise you'll get 'permission denied' on some dirs. Here is
mine for comparison (/home is on a separate partition, but it's not
shown due to the -x option):
think:/# du -hx --max-depth=1
3.3M ./bin
207M ./lib
8.8M ./etc
40K ./media
4.0K ./srv
16K ./mnt
4.0K ./lost+found
3.9M ./sbin
14M ./boot
4.0K ./initrd
0 ./dev
4.0K ./home
1.6G ./usr
98M ./root
68K ./tmp
4.0K ./opt
0 ./proc
0 ./sys
652M ./var
2.5G .
As expected, /usr and /var take the biggest chunk. All others barely add
to ~300M.
Regards,
Andrei
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* Andrei Popescu [2007:07:15:18:57:13+0300] scribed:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
>
> > I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help.
> > Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries
> > themselves (4.0K, 8.0K, etc), rather than the cumulative size of the
> > files inside the directory which I was hoping for. Maybe someone else
> > has a suggestion.
>
> du -xh --max-depth=1 will do the trick, but you will need to do it as
> root, otherwise you'll get 'permission denied' on some dirs. Here is
> mine for comparison (/home is on a separate partition, but it's not
> shown due to the -x option):
Actually, I prefer the following:
sudo du -x --max-depth=3 / | sort -nr | head -n 25
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> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote:
> > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root
> > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
> > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any
> > other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is full
> > since all the applications are stored in my home partition
On 14.07.07 20:48, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> This is a big reason to have more than /, swap, and /home.
yes, /var. That should be enough for most installations.
> Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. The FHS says that files
> in /var/cache "is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or
> calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the
> data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data
> loss.
I'd say the problem may lie in /var/log.
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