Freeing up space on the root partition

[dt23]

Ok, first off here is what I have mounted:

/dev/hda8 /
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda6 /home
/dev/hdc1 usr
/dev/hda7 /var

My root partition is 100% used and desperately needs free space.

Are there any obvious directories that I could move to another partition without causing linux to not load?

-D

[bwkaz]

I don't know if /root can be moved or not, but you could look in it for what's taking up all your space. I know my user's home directory is fairly massive, and if even 10% of that stuff had been done as root, root's home directory might take up a couple of tens of megs. Worth a look, anyway.

Also take a look in /tmp, especially for hidden files and/or directories (use ls -a /tmp or ls -la /tmp).

Everything else, though (/bin, /lib as you found out, /sbin) needs to be on the root partiton or you hit a chicken-and-egg problem.

Might be worth a check for where your kernel images are, too -- they should be in /boot, which is a separate partition, but you never know. If you use lilo and move them, you'll have to change lilo.conf and rerun /sbin/lilo.

[dt23]

I just noticed that a core dump the size of 8 megs was in the /root directory. 8 megs! woohoo! :) (That's a lot when there's nothing else to get rid of)

[Fryguy8]

/tmp can be moved safely off of /

other than that, your / partition shouldn't be more than 100mb the way it's set now.

[dt23]

Weird, because it's currently at 226Megs used now. The max size for the partition is 248M. I'm not sure what cause it to get that big...

[sharth]

some distros put stuff that is not needed in boot in /opt

[dt23]

Weird, because it's currently at 226Megs used now. The max size for the partition is 248M. I'm not sure what cause it to get that big...

[dt23]

Alas, nothing in /opt in my installation. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

[JohnT]

Are you viewing hidden files also?

[sharth]

try installing and using xdiskusage

[dt23]

Ya, ls -a in /opt showed up nothing. Thanks, I'll look into xdiskusage.