Constipated Ibex

[kyle.smith]

Franz Waldmüller wrote: 

	Nigel Henry schrieb:
	  

		On Thursday 09 April 2009 17:39, Brian McKee wrote:
		    

			On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Matthew Flaschen
			
			<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> <mailto:matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>  wrote:
			      

				Brian McKee wrote:
				        

					On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Pete Clapham <pc44062 at gmail.com> <mailto:pc44062 at gmail.com>  wrote:
					          

					Hi, all --
					
					My server using Intrepid appears to have a constipated  root directory.
					Here is the output from the df -h.  As you can see, the / drive is 100%
					used.
					            

					find is your friend.....
					
					 sudo find / -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; |less
					          

				That will only find single files larger than 50000. It won't find, for
				instance, a folder full of 1 MB log files.
				
				I would just do:
				
				du / --max-depth=3
				
				It will take a while to run, but should give you a clearer picture.
				        

			Granted - I should have explained it better.  I just figured if he's
			out in excess of a hundred gig than there must be some rather large
			files involved....
			
			      

	a grat tool to analyse the file system is ncdu (run from the command line)
	install:
	sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ncdu
	to run type
	ncdu /
	with the arrow and enter keys you can
	I don't know if root privileges are required to scan /
	wish you luck
	Franz
	
	
	
	  

OK.  This seems to have showed something.  The constipated directory appears to be /lib/modules, of which there are the following directories:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-28 13:30 2.6.27-11-generic
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-04-09 07:37 2.6.27-11-server
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-01-25 15:35 2.6.27-7-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-25 15:01 2.6.27-9-generic
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-01-25 15:36 2.6.27-9-server

The numbers look like kernels to me, but I'm not sure.  Can I delete all of these?  Any of these?  Can you tell me what they are?

Thanks.  

cheers,
pete
 
 
Those directories shouldn't be too large, can you show the output of `du --max-depth -h /lib/modules`?  Deleting these directories will cause the corresponding kernels to becomes fairly useless. 
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