On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Jeff Boyce wrote: > I have a Dell PE2600 running RHEL3 fully up to date. I noticed recently after > performing some software updates that my root partition is getting full (83% > used, see below). I am a novice linux system administrator and am wondering > what commands could be used to identify the files are located just on this > partition, and more specifically trying to identify orphaned files/programs > that are no longer being used that can be removed to free up some space? I > recently updated Dell's OMSA software from 4.5 to 5.0 and suspect that some of > the 4.5 files have been left on the system due to a failure in part of the > update process. I also have my up2date system set to enable rollbacks, and > have retained several of the previous kernel versions on my system following > updates. If these types of things are filling that partition, I would like > suggestions on how safely remove them or clean up the partition. Thanks. You may want to look into a tool called filelight. It helps to find big directories and files on your filesystem to quickly free space. http://dag.wieers.com/packages/filelight/ Also, you can remove the bigger packages you don't use doing: rpm -qa --qf '%{size} %{name}\n' | sort -n For instance, kernels take up some space but you often don't need more than two or three. Development packages may have been installed during a full install, but are not needed: rpm -qa '*-devel'. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
