Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On Jan 11, 2008 8:26 PM, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> 'elo.
>
> I'm wondering if the list-mind has any collective wisdom to a problem
> that's just started:
>
> I've ran out of disk-space on what mounts as / (and has pretty much
> everything, apart from /var/run and /var/lock) : df(1) reports that 29G
> of a 28G disk is used, 100%.
>
> Despite having moved at least 4gigs off, fsck(8)'ing, and checking
> ownership, I'm out of ideas... there ought to be *some* space...
>
> It's being mounted rw, as expected.
>
> The machine, in itself is fine: apart from X (well, KDE) not wanting to
> login, but TTY login's fine. Nothing untoward in the start-up sequence.
>
> Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine still
> doesn't think it's got any space?
>
> TIA,
>
> a
>
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You can use localepurge to remove unused languages.
You can also use png optimizers to compress png file size.

Try

find / -type f -name ".png" -exec pngcrush {} \;