How to clean the hard disk?

aladin · 08-30-2005, 07:06 AM

Hello everyone
I use a Fedora core 4 box, and I find that my free disk space is little, So I want to uninstall some of the software in my system. But after removing a lot packages(including all the kde packages, btw, I use gnome), I find the disk space keeps all the same! Why? Doesnt the system remove the files uninstalled? Please help me.
3x!

Aladin

phoenix7 · 08-30-2005, 07:23 AM

I didn't work with Fedora's package management, but when I use another distros like SuSE when I remove a package my disk free space increases. If you can't remove packages, another idea is to resize your linux partition.

homey · 08-30-2005, 07:41 AM

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But after removing a lot packages(including all the kde packages, btw, I use gnome), I find the disk space keeps all the same!

If you remove something humungus like kde and related luggage, you should see a big difference!
I run the command: rpm -qa |sort >file.txt to get a good idea of what is installed. Then I use yum to remove things.
For example: yum remove *-devel-*
After a big install or delete, I run these commands:
updatedb
depmod -a
yum clean all

I reboot and run the e2fsck -f /dev/hdb2 at boot time or from a livecd.

I check the results with the command: df -h