yast not opening

dtownsend · 04-24-2009, 08:45 AM

My Suse 10 Enterprise server hard drive filled up. I removed from var/log zmd-message logs to gain some space, but I don't think my hard drive is reading correctly. df -h reads /dev/hda2 size 37G used 37G Avail 5.7M use% 100 Mounted on /. And I can not open Yast either. I can't find anything that says what else I can delete to make space.

ronlau9 · 04-24-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dtownsend

My Suse 10 Enterprise server hard drive filled up. I removed from var/log zmd-message logs to gain some space, but I don't think my hard drive is reading correctly. df -h reads /dev/hda2 size 37G used 37G Avail 5.7M use% 100 Mounted on /. And I can not open Yast either. I can't find anything that says what else I can delete to make space.

You can try as su on the command line zypper remove package name
If I am wrong try man zypper

fuubar2003 · 05-15-2009, 09:30 PM

I'd search for large files to see what is taking up all the space. You'll have to run this multiple times within different directories or simply change the '.' to a directory path:

find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head

Here is a good page with lots of 'find' commands.
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_10.html

dtownsend · 05-18-2009, 07:52 AM

Thanks for the tip on the find cookbook. I did end up finding what was taking all the space. There were 2 partial backups sitting in the root trash bin. As soon as I emptied that I gained just about the whole drive back.
Once again Thanks for the response and the find command list.