I have the following directories I would like to delete to free up space.

[root@reflector1 usr]# du -ks /home/* | sort -nr | head
108012 /home/bind-9.4.2rc2
30972 /home/openssl-0.9.7e
22980 /home/openssl-engine-0.9.6m
19888 /home/libxslt-1.0.27
10672 /home/openvpn-2.0_rc6
9228 /home/icecast-2.3.1
7648 /home/repeater
5724 /home/speak_freely-7.6a
4956 /home/libshout-2.2
4308 /home/ices-2.0.1

They all generally contain:

[root@reflector1 usr]# ls -al /home/bind-9.4.2rc2
total 2044
drwxrwxr-x 9 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 23:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 31 03:02 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 4315 Apr 28 2005 acconfig.h
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 27 May 5 2000 aclocal.m4
drwxrwxr-x 10 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:32 bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 237126 Oct 30 19:07 CHANGES
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 43332 Dec 1 2004 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9253 Dec 29 15:32 config.h
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 8785 Sep 13 21:27 config.h.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 6629 Sep 26 2006 config.h.win32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73370 Dec 29 15:34 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43728 Dec 29 15:32 config.status
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 31307 Dec 1 2004 config.sub
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 4358 Jul 19 2006 config.threads.in
-rwxrwxr-x 1 10132 wheel 969913 Sep 13 21:27 configure
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 67180 Sep 13 21:26 configure.in
drwxrwxr-x 12 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:18 contrib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 1603 Aug 28 00:19 COPYRIGHT
drwxrwxr-x 7 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:32 doc
drwxrwxr-x 2 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:18 docutil
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 0 Oct 30 17:35 FAQ
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 38076 Oct 30 18:14 FAQ.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 10132 wheel 5577 Jul 31 2000 install-sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2859 Dec 29 15:32 isc-config.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 2926 Mar 4 2004 isc-config.sh.in
drwxrwxr-x 11 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:32 lib
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 212685 Feb 26 2006 libtool.m4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 183587 Jul 19 2006 ltmain.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 10132 wheel 4096 Dec 29 15:32 make
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7392 Dec 29 15:32 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 2001 Sep 3 16:46 Makefile.in
-rwxrwxr-x 1 10132 wheel 727 Sep 20 2000 mkinstalldirs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 19370 Oct 30 19:15 README
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 3782 Sep 11 2005 README.idnkit
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10132 wheel 207 Oct 30 18:59 version
drwxrwxr-x 2 10132 wheel 4096 Oct 30 22:06 win32utils

These were created after I downloaded and installed/ configured the applications (./configure && make && make install).

The applications are still needed and running.

I used this directory since I was new to Linux and did not know where to properly place new applications after dowloading/unpacking.

Do I need to retain any of these, or are all the binaries, docs, etc already placed elsewhere so I can delete these dirs?

Thanks!

Greg

It is safe to remove the directories. If you ever want to uninstall that software, you can just get the source again, reconfigure it the same way and run "make uninstall" (assuming that an uninstall target exists in the makefile). You do have a regular user account, right? If not, you should create one as it's unsafe to use the root account all the time.

Nylex:

Resolved. Thanks. These were removed and everything booted fine and is running.

Root - used root to avoid having to deal with file permissions when first learning linux. Thanks for the warning.....

Greg