How can it run out of room ??

[Compunuts]

Look at my freaking file system.

compunuts@sienna:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             1.9G  1.8G   21M  99% /
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2             1.1G  483M  578M  46% /home
/dev/hdb2             1.1G  279M  787M  27% /var
/dev/hdc1             3.0G  321M  2.5G  12% /data
compunuts@sienna:~$

I have not that many stuff on it. Some basic stuff, OO.o, GNUCash, IRC, LICQ, no bloat Mozilla ( just firefox ), no games and stuff. Geeee ....

Anybody run out of room like that on 2G root partition? What kind of crap would take that many space? I thought only Windows take too much space but now I'm not sure it holds any truth to it.

> Now, I will have to re-install >

[vvx]

I'm using 3.8G

That's with OOo, KDE, etc.. when hd's get bigger, the size of everything seems to as well.

[countach44]

check out /tmp

[praetorian]

Do a du -x -d1 on / and see what's taking up so much space.

[Compunuts]

[quote author=Countach44 link=board=14;threadid=9605;start=0#msg87380 date=1091158429]
check out /tmp
[/quote]
Well, here.

sienna:/tmp# ls -lh
total 28K
srwxr-xr-x  1 compunuts compunuts    0 Jul 25 17:47 OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_69328bb790adb36867742d2fb7a9c6
drwxr-x---  2 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 10:34 fah
drwx------  3 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 10:34 gconfd-compunuts
drwx------  2 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 10:34 keyring-Hk1rnY
drwx------  2 root      root      4.0K Jul 25 12:17 libgksu1.2-XqzJZE
drwx------  2 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 17:48 orbit-compunuts
drwx------  2 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 10:34 ssh-MarGPh1044
drwxr-xr-x  2 compunuts compunuts 4.0K Jul 25 17:50 svlnc.tmp
srwxr-xr-x  1 compunuts compunuts    0 Jul 25 10:36 sylpheed-1000
sienna:/tmp#

So it seems it's not that big stuff in /tmp. ???

[Compunuts]

[quote author=praetorian link=board=14;threadid=9605;start=0#msg87384 date=1091159670]
Do a du -x -d1 on / and see what's taking up so much space.
[/quote]
WOW ... now this is a great tool ..... Never know it existed. Thanks.

Although it can be overwhelming, it's still going through file system after about 3 minutes now, but it can be very helpful.

;D

[Compunuts]

At least I have found so far that a great deal of space is used ( uselessly? ) by /usr/share/gnome/help with different languages ( but all I use is English but there are at least a few more such as de, fr, it, ja, a few chineses and so on ) and /usr/share/docs/ . I mean I've never read a doc from my box and since I have multiple boxes, I don't think I need them. Plus, there are manuals for things that I never installed such as KDE and webmin. Also, I don't have KDE but I have KDE stuff like khtml, kworldclock, kdeprint and stuff. Geeee .......

I can't seem to find a single biggest file ( or a few ) that I could delete and be done with it. It was all messy stuff all over.

Now, I need to go back to Debian's way of minimalist aproach again unless I can get 160 GB drive in here.

Thanks for all the help guys.

[pbharris]

hello,
i had a strange thing happen to me twice, my partition was completely full, i found an offending file but it size was no where near what the filesystem said it was. i never figured out what cuased it it, but rebooting and running fsck.ext3 fixed it...

[gorn]

Check /opt often that is not given it's own partition and can be huge. Just symlink it to like /usr/opt or something (But move it there first)

[Compunuts]

[quote author=gorn link=board=14;threadid=9605;start=0#msg87424 date=1091211320]
Check /opt often that is not given it's own partition and can be huge. Just symlink it to like /usr/opt or something (But move it there first)
[/quote]

sienna:/opt# du -x -h
4.0K    .
sienna:/opt#

Hhhmm ... Interesting .....