Hello all,
I tried patching my Linux box with the latest RPMs. However, the machine said that there was not enough room. How should I proceed? How do I go about knowing how much disk space is available and how to clean up the machine to make more room.
The command to check filesystem utilization is "df". It reports the size of each filesystem, the space used, and the space available (after subtracting the reserve, usually 5%, for root).
There is no *general* answer to your second question ("how to clean up the machine to make more room"). If your system is too full for an update, you need to remove something ... but the best choice of "something" depends on what you already have installed and what you actually use the system for. You know that information; we don't.
The details of how to proceed may also depend a bit on what distro and version you are using. SInce you mention RPMs, I can rule out Slackware and Debian, but most of the other big-name distros use RPM packaging.
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