On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 06:39, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:33:15AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:51:14PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > i was wondering if there are any other redundant log files etc that i > > > can delete to make more space available. i for instance know that exim > > > keeps a log and it can be safely deleted. any other files? > > > > Install deborphan and run it every once in a while. Every few months > > it probably doesn't hurt to have it scrap the keeper file. This will > > trim the fat among debian packages. > > oh sure. i am already doing that. > > > On my system at least, /usr/src occasionally bloats to ungodly > > proportions if I've been doing a lot of stuff by hand. > > i do not do any programming. /usr/src is empty! or compilation, etc. > > > /usr/local/ will get up there, too, if you install commercial software > > (like games from id Software or Loki Linux Entertainment[1]). > > i do not do this either. :) > > > If /var/log is building up larger than you are comfortable with, check > > out the logrotate documentation to automate trimming things down a bit > > more. > > sure. i will do this. i had been manually trimming my logfiles so far. > > > -- > regards, > > sandip p deshmukh > ------***-------- I'd also add one package: cruft This takes a while to run, but it goes through the entire system and reports stuff that wasn't put on the machine as part of the currently installed packages - things such as outdated configuration files, misplaced files and the like. It doesn't complain about what is in /home, so users' stuff shouldn't be part of the list (unless it is grotesquely misplaced.) Now, if you are installing stuff outside the apt-get/dpkg/alien package management, those will show up on this list. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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