The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition....
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If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up.
Definitely /
[I'm back in X, BTW ... I deleted the .gz'ed log backups, which apparently gave me just barely enough free space to get back in, then I removed a few programs, giving me a bit more space, via the GUI.
Yes you can delete stuff in /tmp as well as anything in ~/tmp (your home tmp folder), and can delete any core dump files you find (they are named 'core.xxx' )
You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log
To make logrotate run use the command logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf
Too help you in the future it is a good idea to install Midnight Commander (urpmi mc) so you can navigate the file system in the command line.
Installing anacron (urpmi anacron) will ensure your log files and /tmp folder do not fill up in the future by ensuring logrotate gets run daily.
Once you have X running again fsv (in contrib) is great for visualising where all your disc space has gone.
hth
Wonderful. Thanks. I have a few things to check out, then. I've been running with roughly the same free space on / for quite some time now, so not sure what caused it to suddenly begin filling up. Appreciate the detailed info above. Again, thx. :-)
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