[SOLVED] /boot partition full

bluforce · 04-16-2012, 12:39 PM

Guys,
One of my RHEL users /boot partition is full and he cannot login via LDAP. I'm unsure of what to delete. Theres no telling what he's filled it up with. Can you guys offer any suggestions? Wasn't sure if we could delete old kernels or what.

Thanks!

Quote:

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 97G 92G 0 100% /
/dev/sda3 791G 251G 500G 34% /home
tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 230G 166G 52G 77% /vmware

MensaWater · 04-16-2012, 12:49 PM

That is not /boot - it is just / (a/k/a root). Since you don't show a /boot partition it means /boot is just a subdirectory of /.

The first places to check would be /tmp and /var/tmp. These are temporary files that can usually be deleted. Run lsof against the files before deleting to be sure they aren't currently in use. Next to check would be /var (/var/log, /var/cache/yum are usual suspects.) Do NOT just delete log files as they are often in use.

bluforce · 04-16-2012, 12:57 PM

Thanks. SSH'ed into his box and we deleted some huge directories that were on /tmp.
Thanks again!