Off-topic, but there is a very handy utility named ncdu. It's ncurses variant of du. Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Nov 2016, at 02:51, Peter Lesterhuis <peterlesterhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My system compalined of a low disk space on filesystem root. > Root consists of 50GB, > df -h showed an usage of 100%. > > I did some cleaning, : dnf clean all, removed an kernel (there were three), removed a lot op files in /tmp and I ran Beachbit. > > I have gained some room: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > devtmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev > tmpfs 2.0G 284K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm > tmpfs 2.0G 9.6M 2.0G 1% /run > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > /dev/mapper/vg_cello-lv_root 50G 35G 13G 74% / > tmpfs 2.0G 96K 2.0G 1% /tmp > /dev/sda5 477M 147M 302M 33% /boot > /dev/mapper/vg_cello-lv_home 387G 165G 203G 45% /home > tmpfs 396M 24K 396M 1% /run/user/42 > tmpfs 396M 28K 396M 1% /run/user/500 > > Still there is a lot inside root. > It seems that /var/cache consumes a lot of room: PackageKit and yum. > > $ su -c "du --max-depth=1 -m -x /var/cache" > Password: > 1 /var/cache/ccache > 1 /var/cache/ldconfig > 1 /var/cache/jwhois > 17472 /var/cache/PackageKit > 37 /var/cache/cups > 1 /var/cache/hald > 153 /var/cache/dnf > 1 /var/cache/icecream > 1 /var/cache/realmd > 1 /var/cache/abrt-di > 1 /var/cache/php-pear > 1 /var/cache/libvirt > 7 /var/cache/man > 5597 /var/cache/yum > 1 /var/cache/mock > 1 /var/cache/app-info > 1 /var/cache/httpd > 6 /var/cache/fontconfig > 1 /var/cache/foomatic > 1 /var/cache/davfs2 > 1 /var/cache/gdm > 1 /var/cache/ibus > 1 /var/cache/krb5rcache > 23271 /var/cache > > Now I am not sure what to do. I want to delete unnecessary files. But here my knowledge of the filesystem ends. Probably a stupid question, but I am going to ask anyway; can I delete /var/cache/PackageKit, or will that ruin my system? > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
