What happens when root dir fills up?

leiavoia · 11-13-2004, 04:24 PM

My 7GB "/" root partition is almost full and is causing problems. I have more space on the drive and even have a whole second drive sitting around. However, i need to either:

A) expand the root directory -or-

B) move the contents of the root directory to another partition.

Is there a safe way to do this? Thanks for your input. it's truly appreciated.

Hjalte · 11-13-2004, 04:49 PM

try to see how much old packages, you have downloade through apt, fills

du -h /var/cache/apt

If it's a, you can remove it with

apt-get clean

You have to be root, to do the last step!

leiavoia · 11-13-2004, 07:24 PM

Thanks. I've already cleaned up. I don't have any more than 11MB in that directory. I Have about 500MB left on the partition. However, i topped out recently and it caused a lot of problems like not being able to log into a window manager! I figured out it was the partition that was full and i cleaned apt, but i still need more space.

jollyjoice · 11-14-2004, 03:33 AM

have you got /home on a difrent partition? you could also try moving /bin to the other drive.

leiavoia · 11-14-2004, 04:54 PM

Yes, i have /home on a whole different partition. "/" includes everything else except /swap

drawhla · 11-14-2004, 07:14 PM

apt-get install xdiskusage

hope that helps, I was very useful to me