On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 151001 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. >> df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / >> I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles . > > 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. > that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff. > My system shows : > > root:505 ~> df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > 802 30G 6.4G 24G 22% / > tmpfs 395M 516K 395M 1% /run > dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev > none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm > cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > /dev/sda5 30G 12G 19G 40% /home > /dev/sda6 15G 6.7G 8.4G 45% /usr/portage > /dev/sda7 40G 8.1G 32G 21% /z > /dev/sdb1 9.8G 3.5G 6.3G 36% /usr/local > /dev/sdb5 9.8G 1.6G 8.3G 16% /usr/src > tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp > > /z is a large hangar space for handling very big files.
Thanks. Yes, I used: du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10 and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb -- Thelma