But I think it maybe a more serious situation and it might be better here. I had thought that I understood the partition system for linux, but fear I am wrong.
I have noticed that my / has a red bar stating there is only 302 MB left of my 16 GB.
Someone replied on my other post and said that my /tmp folder probably needed a clean out.
I found another thread which said delete everything in /tmp and someone else saying, it is a mistake to do that if you don’t know what you are doing. I turn my machine on in the morning and turn it off at night, so I presume my /tmp is cleared every night.
When I clicked on the 16 GB all the folder came up including my second drive, my home directory. So now I am a bit confused.
I couldn’t check through properties the size of ‘lost & found’ and root.
None of the folders were over 300 mb, in fact /tmp was only 158.5 mb. Only one other was big and that was /proc at 448 mb and /usr at 3.9 GB.
Also listed were my second hard drive at 28.2 GB, /home at 7.4 GB.
So my questions are,
What should I do about the lack of space on /?
What really is in / partition?
Thank you for that. Very clear instruction with screenshots. By my reckoning that will give approximately an extra 150 mbs, is there anything else I need to do?
do what caf said and then if still in need of space look and see if
you have some HUGE log files in /var/log…
if so, use the forum’s search to find threads (as recent as the last
couple of days and as old as YEARS) to learn about the safe/effective
way to keep log files under control [logrotate]…
> Maybe I should have made more space for /? I thought it would be
> enough as I thought Suse 11.1 was only about 5GB
well, it depends on what you installed initially and what you have
added since the figures you quoted
/var 310 mb
/usr 3.9 GB
/proc 448 mb
/tmp 158.5
would put you probably about 6 or 7 GB…i guess all the rest is in
home…videos and music gobbles it up…
do this
df -ah
and you will get more details…come back with questions and copy past
that output, if you do…
CAUTION here are some rules i follow myself:
if you do not know what it does, do not delete it! (unless you like
repairing user killed systems)
if you what it does and want to delete it: then pretend deleting
it by renaming or moving the file/directory…and if in a few days or
months! everything is still working ok, THEN delete it…
every time you use the rm command always add the -i switch (will
ask you do you really wanna remove blah blah)
rm with the switches -f -r or -R are so dangerous read the commmand
you typed THREE times before you push enter…and NEVER EVER use f r
or R with i, EVER
by the way, my (non-home containing) root is up to 13.2 GB…so . . .
ls /var/log-l-h
ls: cannot access /var/log-l-h: No such file or directory
nappy@linux-5oez:~> cd /
nappy@linux-5oez:/> ls /var/log-l-h
ls: cannot access /var/log-l-h: No such file or directory
nappy@linux-5oez:/> su
Password:
linux-5oez:/ # ls /var/log-l-h
ls: cannot access /var/log-l-h: No such file or directory
linux-5oez:/ # ls/var/log-l-h
bash: ls/var/log-l-h: No such file or directory
i may be wrong, but to me it looks like you have 15 GB of stuff in
/home but still have 13 GB there which is not used, whereas your root
partition (/) has used 15 of its available 16 GB (so, it seems your
system install wasn’t anywhere near the 5 GB you anticipated (i wonder
where you got that expectation, anyway?)
and, you have about 25 GB unused space dedicated to Redmond…
there are several ways to move stuff around and give more space to
that now crowded root…but, i know very little about that since i
usually make the initial layout with at least 20 to 25 GB for root,
and all the rest to /home /archive and etc…
perhaps someone else can guide you to a way to expand your / directory…
That thread contains inf on how to resize partitions that I thought would help but I think resizing would only be a temporary fix
refer my previous post
