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

[Faizan Kazi]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like the folders in / add up to about 8G, but there really is 15G
> used,
> so, what's in / itself?
>
> Try   sudo ls -ahl / and let's see if there's something extra there.


faizan at faizan-jaunty:~$ sudo ls -ahl /
[sudo] password for faizan:
total 108K
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4.0K 2009-05-23 01:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4.0K 2009-05-23 01:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-04-24 10:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K 2009-05-05 01:25 boot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   11 2009-04-24 10:25 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4.2K 2009-05-29 22:41 dev
drwxr-xr-x 160 root root  12K 2009-05-29 22:42 etc
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4.0K 2009-04-26 03:38 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   33 2009-04-24 10:36 initrd.img ->
boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4.0K 2009-05-26 12:23 lib
drwx------   2 root root  16K 2009-04-24 10:25 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4.0K 2009-05-29 22:41 media
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4.0K 2009-05-26 12:18 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 200 root root    0 2009-05-30 04:40 proc
drwx------  25 root root 4.0K 2009-05-28 20:54 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-05-05 01:24 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-03-06 21:21 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-04-20 19:59 srv
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root    0 2009-05-30 04:40 sys
drwxrwxrwt  17 root root  20K 2009-05-29 22:42 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4.0K 2009-05-26 12:23 usr
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4.0K 2009-05-26 12:19 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   30 2009-04-24 10:36 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic

Seems its pretty much emtpy!! I am SO confused... :s

>
> Brian
>


Regards,
Faizan.
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