Filling up /

[John Campbell]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I just checked df and discovered that my / partition is 91% full:
> # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             11535344   9928620   1020756  91% /
> tmpfs                   128388         0    128388   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                   128388     12588    115800  10%
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
> /dev/hda6              6965472   2106624   4505020  32% /home
> 
> You can see that /home is a seperate partition, so there is no issue
> of too many user files. How can I check to see what the bloat is, and
> what can be safely removed before the system goes critical? I have no
> performance issues, yet.


Look in /var/cache/apt/archives?  I'd lay odds that that's what you're 
seeing.  I'm not on my ubuntu machine, but there should be a way to 
clean it out.

It's got a bug report too (Bug #13116).