clean up disk space in salix (slackware) 14.1

mel_newbie · 03-29-2014, 12:25 PM

I received a "no space left on device" message and could not log in to salix installation. I've since used gparted to give the /root partition more space as this was what was 100% full.

I'm now trying to figure out why it filled up to 20GB.

I'm trying to use the steps from this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post3232993

Here's the output of df -m:

Code:

Filesystem     1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1          44457 19100     23077  46% /
/dev/sda5         159776 49970    101668  33% /home
/dev/sda6           4912   149      4491   4% /OE_SYSTEM
/dev/sda7           4912   224      4416   5% /OE_DATA
/dev/sda9          14990    38     14169   1% /LFS
tmpfs                990     0       990   0% /dev/shm

Here's the output of du -sm /var | sort -nr:

Code:

du: cannot access '/home/mpadilla2/.gvfs': Permission denied
du: cannot access '/proc/4652/task/4652/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4652/task/4652/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4652/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4652/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
49910   /home
8139    /root
8033    /usr
1714    /var
560     /tmp
327     /opt
214     /OE_DATA
193     /lib
139     /OE_SYSTEM
21      /boot
20      /lib64
20      /etc
17      /sbin
11      /bin
1       /srv
1       /run
1       /mnt
1       /media
1       /lost+found
1       /LFS
0       /sys
0       /proc
0       /dev

How do I figure out what's causing /root to be so large?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

mel_newbie · 03-29-2014, 01:40 PM

I figured it out using this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tition-923653/

nithinsugathan · 03-30-2014, 06:15 AM

Another thing you can do is find which file is eating up more disk space. If you want to check files under /root, type

Code:

find /root -type f -exec ls -s {} \;|sort -nr