Root partition full...how should I free up space?

[Faizan Kazi]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Faizan Kazi <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > using "sudo du -h /var/" i found out the following, which may not be
> totally
> > accurate....
> >
> > 358M    /var
> > 6.0M    /bin/
> > 19M    /etc/
> > 1.2G    /home/
> > 121M    /lib/
> > 11M    /root/
>
> du -h /var found /home etc?  I don't think that's right.


so sorry brian!! I mean "du -h (FolderName)" :(

>
> > proc is over 890 MB...
>
> proc isn't real - ignore that.
>
will do :)

>
> What does df -h say?

faizan at faizan-jaunty:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4              15G   14G     0 100% /
tmpfs                1007M     0 1007M   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun               1007M  352K 1006M   1% /var/run
varlock              1007M     0 1007M   0% /var/lock
udev                 1007M  168K 1006M   1% /dev
tmpfs                1007M  120K 1006M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                  1007M  2.4M 1004M   1%
/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1              51G   49G  1.7G  97% /media/Xp
/dev/sda3             182G  181G  1.4G 100% /media/Waffles
/dev/sda7              33G   24G  8.7G  74% /media/Backup
/dev/sr0              698M  698M     0 100% /media/cdrom0

>
> Brian
> --
> All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
> bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

btw i didnt try this... what does this do?

Thanks!!! :)

Regards,
Faizan Kazi.
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