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12-19-2005, 02:05 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Vietnam (Việt Nam)
Distribution: Gentoo (desktop), Arch linux (laptop)
Posts: 728
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Which folder in linux can be safetly delete to save disk space.
Hello everybody.
For months ago, when I installed FC4, I have used 7 out of 10 GB
But now, I have only 500MB left.
I don't know how it could be so fast. All of my data is put on another partition.
I put all of linux folder include / in a single partition.
I don't know what cause that problem, I have crossover intalled but I cost only 400MB (and it is the largest software in my box).
The /home dir is 28MB
What else can cost me that amount of this space?
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12-19-2005, 02:16 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Various using VMWare
Posts: 2,088
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Make sure that your logs in /var are being rotated correctly.
Make sure that the temporary files are being deleted. I think it is either done on shutdown or powerup.
--Ian
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12-19-2005, 02:16 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Debian
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Check your error logs /var/log directory to see if errors have accumulated in the files and are eating up disk space.
Once my .xsession-errors file in my home directory grew so big that it ate up several Gigabytes.
Just search for all hidden files as well as log files.
Edit: Oops too late, too slow to type this 
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12-19-2005, 02:29 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Vietnam (Việt Nam)
Distribution: Gentoo (desktop), Arch linux (laptop)
Posts: 728
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I will check tonight but by the way
Can slocate search for file using size rather than name
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12-19-2005, 05:51 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Egypt
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 1,528
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if your using a package manager, delete its cache as it stores every package
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12-19-2005, 09:20 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Vietnam (Việt Nam)
Distribution: Gentoo (desktop), Arch linux (laptop)
Posts: 728
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heema:
rpm means redhat package manager, so where can I find its cache.
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12-19-2005, 01:38 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux-General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
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12-19-2005, 03:02 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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These two commands can be useful for tracking down where all your space went...
df -h
du -sh /[!d,p]*
May help you close in on where the space is being used.
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12-19-2005, 03:09 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Paris
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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I'm using xdu for that.
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