hi there,
i hope u all r having a great day =)

i'm just a novice fedora user. i'm running fedora 19 in a duel boot machine with win7.

yesterday, all of a sudden, the fedora got stuck in boot. i searched for hours over internet with the error message and found it may be a problem with the disk space. so from command prompt, deleted some files and the machine booted.

now after starting, i'm getting the message

it says root has 0 kb space left.
i have separate root and home partition. i store all my personal data on home and doesn't touch the root at all.

for this problem, even firefox doesn't run on my machine. i'm posting this from another machine.

i'm seeking for urgent suggestion from u people. what should i do now? how can i free up some space on root? what files can i delete without harming the system?

thanks in advance.

provide the output of:

Unless you have /var/log in a separate partition you may be able to see if there are old logs in there that tou don't need.

Also check /tmp

Other than that you can try and that'll give you an indication as to which folders in / are the biggest, you can then go through them individually using du -h to see if you can find what's using the most space.

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thanks for ur quick response =)

here is the output of my df -h
(as i can't use browser from that pc, so i'm posting the pics)

Ok, so now take a look at the output of the du -h command (as above), I'm sure you're going to start finding folders that are taking up a lot of space then just go down the levels using du -h each time and you should be able to identify what's taking up the space.

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by using , i find ./var has 1.9 gb.

is it the culprit? then what should i do about it?

here is output of the above command :

/usr is 5.8Gb, so looks like you've probably got a few installed applications.
/var is 1.9Gb, so check /var/log as that's the most likely place you'll find log files that can be easily cleared out.

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thanks for ur insight. now i'm seeing things.

but i don't get it. i have only a very few applications installed other than the defaults, like yumex, openoffice suite, ktorrent, smplayer -- these should be all. how come its taking such huge spaces?

i ran du -h --max-depth=1 on /usr, and here are the outputs:


./share has 2.9 GB. can i delete the contents of this folder without any harm?

i'm checking the /var/log now.

okay, in /var, /cache has 349 MB and /log has 1.2GB. can i delete the contents of these folder without affecting the system?

I'd look at individual files in /var/log and see what you can get rid of. I wouldn't just blindly delete a whole folder structure, especially not /var/share without seeing exactly what files are in there.

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no no, the /share is in /usr.

so how can i know which files i can delete and which i can't? or should i post the contents of those folders here?

Do not delete anything under /usr/share unless you are absolutely sure of what it is you are deleting.

Post the listing of the files in /var/log for a start, that should get you some space back, as for what other files are..... Google them if you don't know what they are.

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okay, here are the file under /var/log :

by running a du -sh *, i find the 'messages' alone takes 1.1GB !

If you use ls -lh * you'll get a listing with the file sizes, if your messages file is that big then look at it to see what's creating the log entries.

i tried, but i don't understand what is going on there. :-(

can i delete this file? i need to start using that machine so i can post the outputs directly from there.