I'm running a default RH7.3 install, and it seems the / partition has run out of space, which makes installing any new packages or compiling anything, close to impossible, as it needs to write to /tmp. Is there any way to find what large files are located in / that could be taking up all 372M of that partition?

Here's what everything looks like:

[kaotikus@optimus]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 372M 372M 0 100% /
/dev/hda1 45M 8.7M 34M 21% /boot
/dev/hda3 1.8G 48M 1.6G 3% /home
none 62M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 5.0G 2.3G 2.4G 49% /usr
/dev/hda6 251M 112M 126M 47% /var

i'd suggest
giving only that much space to / wasn't that great an idea... was that an autoinstallation choice?

Uhm, what does that tell me exactly? Yes, it was an autoinstaller choice.. i didn't realize it was that small...

[root@optimus /]# du / -x | less
12 /lost+found
4 /dev/ataraid
33 /dev/cciss
1 /dev/cpu/0
1 /dev/cpu/1
1 /dev/cpu/10
1 /dev/cpu/11
1 /dev/cpu/12
1 /dev/cpu/13
1 /dev/cpu/14
1 /dev/cpu/15
1 /dev/cpu/2
1 /dev/cpu/3
1 /dev/cpu/4
1 /dev/cpu/5
1 /dev/cpu/6
1 /dev/cpu/7
1 /dev/cpu/8
1 /dev/cpu/9
17 /dev/cpu
1 /dev/compaq
1 /dev/dri
32 /dev/i2o
33 /dev/ida
1 /dev/inet
2 /dev/input


Thanks for the quick response...

add that h i added in.... it shows the size of each directory, so you can see where the space has gone. actually, change it to
and that should only show directorys over 1mb, and cutout a lot of junk

Thanks so much! That let me narrow it down to a couple directories that had mistakenly been used to compile some stuff..

...and your response time: incredible.

Thanks again! have a great day!

I don't use a separate partion for home as i am the only one using this PC...you have 1.6 gigs on /home just sitting there....just install stuff to that if you run short.

yeah, i would do that, but the case was that the things like ./configure and stuff write to /tmp by default, so i had to clean that mess up..