Hi:

I didn't notice my rather small harddrive was filling up and it doesn't seem that RedHat KDE has a warning message about this.

I have just tried to login normally and the system won't allow me and says the drive is full.

I've got a failsafe terminal open and want to delete some files in order to get things working again. Anyone got any suggestions? I think what has me stuck is that I was not sure where the cache etc were and how to delete them ...

I am new to Linux and a bit wary of using rm!

Thanks,

me!

It depends on how you have your hard disk partitioned. For simplicity, I'll assume you have everything on one large partition...

Have a look in /tmp first. Nothing in there should (love that word) be required. In your /var/log directory, do you have files with names ending in .1, .2, .3. .4? Those are archives of your system logs and are safe to delete since you've probably already seen them when they were the active logs.

Try typing du -sh /* as root and see where the large file usage is. This will list system executables and devices as well so don't delete randomly.

Just cleaning your /tmp and /var/log directories should clean out enough to be able to boot with. After you get her booted maybe you should look into removing some programs and such you don't use.

Yup, this is a good suggestion. I wouldn't start hacking away at files with a big knife from the CLI if you're not confortable using it. Get rid of some log files so you can log in and then do the rest from your comfort area

Hi. I know with FC3, and apt installed from planetccrma, there were nearly 800MB of updates. These are archived in /var/cache/apt/archives, and can consume a lot of harddrive space. The command
"apt-get clean" without the double quotes, will clear this unneeded stuff in the case of using apt. If you are using yum, "yum clean" does the same thing.

Please post back, as it's nice to know if the problem has been solved. Nigel.

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