I'm BA-A-A-a-a-ack!
To answer Joe (about bleachbit), I did look at its wikipedia page
quickly. My impression is that it focuses on personal space (/home/...)
rather than system space. What was needed here was a huge amount system
space. I seriously doubt that bleachbit would have helped to a serious
degree. It was a *quick* look, and I plan to come back to this, but for
now, we're focused on recovering space where semi-annual upgrades need
the space.
I won't be doing another upgrade until mid spring, but I believe it wise
to do the space recovery now, while this is fresh on the minds of thread
participants. I'll continue doing patches every week; I did one
successfully with no problemsearlier this afternoon.
Let's please tackle one directory sub-tree at a time. First,
"/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/"...
(Ed said)
> And then,
> /var/cache/abrt-di/usr
> That most likely contains a bunch of core files that are no longer
needed.
(I responded)
> That directory looks huge and complex. I saw lots of links
> and lots of source code (".c" and ".h" files).
(Samuel then said)
> I don't have anything in that directory. In general, anything in
/var/cache should be deletable,
> although something currently running might care about it. In this
case, if you don't have any
> abrt reports that you still want to send in, feel free to delete
anything under abrt-di.
I've done a little more statistics on my "/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/".
After doing "cd /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/", and running the appropriate
commands I find it has:
* 6035 sub-directories ("tree -d --du > ~/abrtdi_tree.txt", then "view
~/abrtdi_tree.txt" and looking at the line count).
* 11 levels below .../usr/.
* 35759 'c' language source files ("ls -alR | grep "\.c$" >
~/abrtdi_c.txt", then "view ~/abrtdi_c.txt" and looking at the line count).
* 24369 'c' language ".h" header files ("ls -alR | grep "\.h$" >
~/abrtdi_h.txt", then "view ~/abrtdi_h.txt" and looking at the line count).
* 13827 links ("ls -alR | grep "^l" > ~/abrtdi_l.txt", then "view
~/abrtdi_l.txt" and looking at the line count).
I do not know if there are any core files in this sub-tree; I don't know
what they would be named, so I don't know how to search for and count
them. The point is that what I do see in there does not look like what
it was said to contain. Is there something about my system's
configuration that is wrong and I don't know it? I hope you understand
my concern and caution about deleting over 6000 directories containing
over 40,000 source files! Let's please be careful and sure about
this!In case it helps, I fpasted "abrtdi_tree.txt" (output from "tree -d
--du > ~/abrtdi_tree.txt") here:
"https://paste.centos.org/view/94c5d039";.
Please hold off on discussion/suggestions about journal files and other
things until we get this
"/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/" done!
thanks
Bill.
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