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Mr. Eek,

One thing you could do is use the find command to find files that
have not been accessed for the last X days. You can then put all those files into a directory (such a /be_careful), and move all those files there. Reboot your computer, and if it still works after about a week or so of use, you can probably safely delete them.

- lowlife

I wouldn't worry about your /dev directory, its a psuedo type file system which in most cases take up very little space or no space. In most *nix systems they are only loaded up in RAM and not on the hard disk. So I would leave this directory alone just to prevent from trashing your whole system.

You'll probably want to try doing a search on maybe "Linux Filesystem" and read up on that to understand more of what you will need and what you won't need.

Or just run DevFS, this will put only the files needed for your hardware in /dev, in other words, you will have only the existing devices in your /dev, the nonexistent ones will be removed. You can enable devFS in the kernel, and it should load next time you reboot.
HTH
-NSKL

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