Re: 97% use of / system

[Luke S Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com>]

andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97%
> full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What
> should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be
> deep-sixed safely?

cd /
du -h -s *

then drill down to the big directories and repeat.   

If it's a server, pay special attention to /var/log  but 12Gb is a lot of 
logs, and it sounds like you are a desktop user, in which case the space is
probably movies or something in a home directory.