One place to look would be /tmp (since you don't have a separate /tmp partition), another /var/log/*, and lastly, check the root e-mail account -- you'll typically get 2-3 e-mails a night from various cron jobs, so if you haven't checked it in a while, it can qet pretty large. At 07:12 PM 04/15/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on a Thinkpad 1400. It has a 12 gig drive >that was apportioned with 400 megs to swap, about 4 gigs to / and the >rest to /home so that I'd have plenty of room to host websites on it. >First of all, is this a reasonable way to partition the drive? > >This is the response I get when run df: > >Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda1 3526172 2952152 394900 88% / >/dev/hda6 7677052 760164 6526912 10% /home > >seems like the first partition (hda1) is filling up and I don't know >why? I dumped as many old log files as I felt safe doing (which >probably means the first suggestion here is going to be to look at >logs to see what's up) and it made little difference. I'd like some >direction on where on the system to look for an accumulation of >garbage. > >TIA > >Andy >
