On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:07:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that > I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I > recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on > my machine as well (which would of course have doubled the value reported > by df). > > There are roughly 15GB on the Debian side of things, which - okay - ain't > the biggest space in the world anymore, but should be -plenty.- I didn't > think I had enough candy installed to occupy over half that space ... so > I'm wondering where crud might have a tendency to build up on a Debian > install, how to find it and what the easiest way might be to get rid of it > is.
info du In particular, check out /var. That's where most "crud" will accumulate. > The real impetus for this is that I've heard, anyway, that unauthorized > users can figure out ways to use one's unused HD space to store their > warez, or what have you, and I sure wouldn't like it if that was what was > going on here ... That wouldn't normally be a problem unless your box has been compromised, or have silly things like world writeable ftp access or samba shares. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>