There are a few things you can do: 1. Repartition the drive (which pretty much means a re-install) as follows: / approx 600 - 700 MB /usr approx 3.5 GB (gives you a little more room in case you decide to load more programs down the road) leave your swap size the same give the rest to /home. 2. Take a look in /var/log, and see if there are any .[1-9] files or .gz files. If so, they can be deleted (since they are nothing more than old copies of your log files). Also check in /var/spool/mail, and do an ls -al to see how large your mail spool files are getting. The 'root' user account gets a lot of e-mail from various cron jobs that occur regularly (if the machine is on 24/7) and so therefore might be kind of large. 3. Try to figure out where it is trying to uncompress the man files (I think /var/tmp maybe? or /var/cache) and make that a symbolic link to a similarly named directory on /home (where you have plenty of room). Michael At 01:12 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: >Michael > >thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie! >ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the >man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space >allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD? > >the output is > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda1 486M 50M 411M 11% / >/dev/hda5 3.8G 14M 3.6G 1% /home >/dev/hda6 2.9G 938M 1.8G 34% /usr >/dev/hda8 45M 46M 0 100% /var > > >thanks > >f > >______________________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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