Borked /home/ folder!

[billybeag]

Oh dear, I seem to have filled up my / partition.
I have about a 1gb of space allocated there, which I thought would be sufficient for the system to getting going on with.
Then there is a swap file also 1gb.
after that is /usr which is 6.9gb.
I kind of assumed when I allocated the space, that all the stuff I created, downloaded etc would end up in the /usr partition. I think I may have ended up d'l'ing tons of replacement rpms yesterday, though where they are I dunno.....
I have gone through all the folders in the culprit directory which is /home/billybeag and moved some obvious things. In this directory however there is a file called .xsession-errors this file is, (and try not to laugh, well not too hard anyway), 568 mb!
Can I delete it? Why is it growing so big, is it a log setting that is basically echoing everything there?

Is it possible/advisable to move my /home/billybeag folder on mass to the /usr partition, I realise that there may be problems if I do requiring me to redirect menu shortcuts etc. but will this action create massive instability/inoperability?
Alternatively I am tempted to just repartition the disks to give more space, but I really thought the /usr partition would be (when I installed) the default place for all my personal stuff.

[swemic]

Ouch! Sounds like you have some serious errors in your X environment.
Anyhow, you should pretty safely be able to delete this file,
since it is your local logfile from your x-session

[tjb]

Just to add to the previous comment, it may be a good idea to actually look at what is causing the errors before deleting the .xsession-errors file. Otherwise it will just be created again upon rebooting and will increase to large sizes again unless the error is fixed.

I managed to get the file size over 2GB which I thought was impressive!

tail .xsession-errors

will show last error.

[billybeag]

WOW that was impressive!
I know what was causing the errors, it was trying to configure the nvidia drivers and stuff.