freeing disk space

yull · 02-06-2006, 03:30 PM

Hi

I need to free some hd space on my debian server.

What are the main places where I have to look?

thanks

pljvaldez · 02-06-2006, 03:39 PM

Here's an article to help you out. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/143

What you're asking depends on what kind of server you're hosting (i.e. user files for apache may take up a lot of disk space if they each have unlimited space...) You might look into quota to limit certain directory sizes...

fatrandy13 · 02-06-2006, 03:41 PM

find / -size 10000k

RanDrake10 · 02-06-2006, 11:10 PM

Install "localepurge" to remove unused docs

yull · 02-07-2006, 08:52 AM

wow purgelocal freed me 67Mg useless docs in japanase, russian, etc...

thanks

nx5000 · 02-07-2006, 08:57 AM

Localpurge is great
also exist:
deborphan
debfoster
cruft but this one is more complicated to interpret and you need to manually remove things.

Ztyx · 02-18-2006, 07:41 PM

I usually do a:
# apt-get clean
when I need some space. Have a look at apt-get:s man-page.

/J

acerimusdux · 05-10-2007, 10:14 AM

Two useful utilities for finding large and unused packages in debian are dpigs and popularity-contest.

To list the 20 largest packages installed (you have to decide for yourself if you use them):

dpigs -n 20

To see what packages you use most, and what ones you aren't using, try:

popularity-contest
popcon-largest-unused

mastrboy · 05-10-2007, 10:25 AM

take a look in /var/cache and /tmp to see if theres anything you can delete. And maybe some old log files at /var/log

farslayer · 05-10-2007, 08:28 PM

Egads..

Quote:

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 314780K
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 3968K

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 318748K

OK that utility goes on the keeper list..