root partition is at 100%?

[memius]

i get 'no space left on device' when i try to run aptitude dist-upgrade.

df output looks like this:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 256243 256005 0 100% /
udev 10240 96 10144 1% /dev
devshm 257564 0 257564 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 28627152 17253144 9919824 64% /home
/dev/hda7 366072 38675 307866 12% /tmp
/dev/hda4 4806140 2286312 2275688 51% /usr
/dev/hda5 2883640 1356472 1380684 50% /var
/dev/sda 126710 1726 124984 2% /home/tmh/Desktop/sda
/dev/sdb 126710 1726 124984 2% /home/tmh/Desktop/sda

/var was at 100% too, but i managed to erase som crap from there. i can't figure out what to delete now, though.

[tpl]

well, try to find the space wasters: here's a way

cd /
du -x | sort -nr >DUs

the files DUs will then list all files on the root partition,
largest first. Start deleting.

[oz]

You should probably also consider expanding your root partition so this problem doesn't haunt you again in the future.

Check out the PartedMagic LiveCD for working with your partitions:

Parted Magic

It's a small download and burn to CD, it's easy to use, and it can run without Linux or Windows being installed on the machine.

[memius]

thanks for your advice!

i ran the du, but what is safe to delete? i have no idea which are logfiles and which are important system files. here are the largest files:

247765 .
134269 ./lib
122931 ./lib/modules
60516 ./root
55324 ./root/.mozilla
55323 ./root/.mozilla/firefox
55320 ./root/.mozilla/firefox/qxioeel8.default
53708 ./root/.mozilla/firefox/qxioeel8.default/Cache
42576 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc
41740 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel
40343 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc
40011 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc
39313 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc/kernel
39019 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc/kernel
37332 ./boot
25921 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/drivers
24292 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc/kernel/drivers
24039 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc/kernel/drivers
6308 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net
6063 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc/kernel/fs
6053 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/fs
6008 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc/kernel/fs
5726 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net
5654 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net
5074 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/net
4902 ./lib/modules/2.6.17-2-powerpc/kernel/net
4893 ./lib/modules/2.6.16-2-powerpc/kernel/net
4358 ./root/.thumbnails
4318 ./lib64
4271 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/drivers/media
4269 ./root/.thumbnails/normal
4169 ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-powerpc/kernel/sound
3945 ./bin
3852 ./etc

[anomie]

250MB is probably not enough for your / filesystem, even with your current partitioning scheme.

To correct this for now, you can delete /root/.mozilla. That will free up 54MB.

You know, it is a really bad idea to be running mozilla/firefox/<insert buggy user app here> as root... Totally unnecessary, and introduces risk.

[jledhead]

its this very reason that I still don't understand with modern computers why people still partition this way, instead of all in one partition??

I can almost understand this for servers, but for desktops.

[bigtomrodney]

its this very reason that I still don't understand with modern computers why people still partition this way, instead of all in one partition??

I can almost understand this for servers, but for desktops.

It makes more sense to partition this way, though you may not see that yet. The problem here isn't that there is a seperate root partition, it is that it is too small.

Having your /home or /tmp on the same partition as / introduces security problems even on *nix systems. Generally I would only seperate out /tmp and /home, occasionally /var too.

[jonantice]

If you update your system regularly this might clear up some disk space as well:

sudo apt-get autoclean

[vilirane]

well, try to find the space wasters: here's a way

cd /
du -x | sort -nr >DUs

the files DUs will then list all files on the root partition,
largest first. Start deleting.

Is it safe to delete /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.* folders please help me out

thanks in advance

[vilirane]

Hi

if you found /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.* delete all folder namely logwatch.*