My / is full. How to create 400MB free space without deletion .??

kadhiravan.r · 12-07-2005, 12:53 AM

My root partions is full(100%). I want 400MB free space now. How i a\can create it . Help me

Without deleting everything

help MeMMMMMMMMMMMeeeeeeeeeee.

kadhiravan

Ynot Irucrem · 12-07-2005, 01:03 AM

You can use QtParted on knoppix to resize the partition if there is enough free space on the disk.

koyi · 12-07-2005, 03:02 AM

Ya we need to know more about your situation before we can help.
Post the output of

Code:

fdsik -l /dev/hda

here. Of course the info about other disks(hdb, hdc, etc) is needed, too, if you have them.

Help us help you.

nx5000 · 12-07-2005, 03:08 AM

You can try "localepurge" to removed the unwanted locale for the language you don't use. It will also remove some man pages in other languages.
Yesterday i recovered 100 to 200 MB

kadhiravan.r · 12-07-2005, 05:14 AM

Is the "localepurge"

is a Linux native command.?

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

You can try "localepurge" to removed the unwanted locale for the language you don't use. It will also remove some man pages in other languages.
Yesterday i recovered 100 to 200 MB

nx5000 · 12-07-2005, 05:32 AM

No
As you don't give your distribution , I can't tell you which it exists for yours or on a website.
It is a bash shell script.

If by luck you're on debian:

Code:

apt-get install localepurge

and then it is automagically launched every upgrade you make.

dracolich · 12-07-2005, 05:52 PM

Check your /tmp directory. If you've been burning any cds there could be some temporary disc images left in there.

Also check the size of your /var/log/system and messages files and maybe others). If you don't have them configured (via cron) to rotate and reset they'll get very large very fast.

nx5000 · 12-08-2005, 02:06 AM

You can also move some directory to your other partition, if it readable/writable.
I had the same problem so I decided to move some big directories:

/usr/share/doc is now on a separate partition.
/usr/src is now poiting to /home/src because my /home is on another partition

Code:

cd /usr/share
mv doc /otherdisk/
ln -s /otherdisk/doc .