HEy i m running a stripped down version of linux.. its still about 780 mb after complete installation. My HDD is 1 gig..and when i check usage of my HDD its about 92% now.. (it used to be 79% last week). So my questoin is where is all that data being written to? and are ther any huge files (logs.. temp.. etc?) that i can safely delete to ensure that the size remains under about 900 MB??
Thx,
Rohan

Programs u don't use...

Go through your personal stuff first, chances are you'll find a lot of space in your home directory

look in /var/log
git rid of any old log files you dont really need...........

Well, if you are going for as small an install as possible (and are skilled with Linux) you can delete all of the "man" pages. That would save space. Also any documentation that gets installed with packages should be deleted.

You can safely delete all of these directories (as long as you don't need, or will miss any of it):

/usr/doc
/usr/info
/usr/man
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/info
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/zoneinfo

you can save about 20 megs by removing the manual pages.
the file /etc/man.conf will tell you the location of all the diff manual pages.

thx guys..
yes i had alread done all of the above "except" the /var/logs. I also deleted the man pages and backgroudn images and themes etc...
I guess i was vague in my earlier post.. so i didnt get replies that i expected. I have reduced all that i could. The problem is that the free space is reducing. like i said, after clean install i had 21% remaining.. and now i have 8% remaining. I am worried that my HDD will get full. I havent installed any extra programs after the clean install.
I am guessing that some of the services are creating some sort of log files or dump files that are taking up disk space, so i'd like to know if any of you know a link that talks about all the log files or dump that all services make.. and where they are located...

Rohan

Well, you better do that soon enough, bemow 10% free space, the performance of your system will be seriously downgraded.

[quote]Well, you better do that soon enough, bemow 10% free space, the performance of your system will be seriously downgraded.[quote]

when i feel like gaming, my hard disk oftem becomes 100% full.
(Ut2003 downloading map2 and sounds automatically)

i have a 6 gig disk, and with only 5 meg free, i dont notice any difference in performance to when i have no cames installed, and my hard disk is only 30% in use.

its not like linux uses the same disk space for programs and data as it does for swap.

when my windows disk is full, i get warnings about no swap, and my system does suffer, but linux seems to handle it fine.

Maybe clean some useless files (e.g. files downloaded by web browsers and no longer being used) out from /tmp? A lot of 100MB files clogging up your /tmp folder is NOT pretty.