space concern
I found that, for some reason, a couple of hours after installing
OpenOffice.org 2.0 from the rpm source via alien, that I had no space on
my computer. I had had eighteen GB before. Someone suggested that I
check via the command "du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g". So, I did,
and here was the result:
debian:/home/mark# du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g
du: `/proc/4781/task': No such file or directory
du: `/proc/4781/fd': No such file or directory
0 /sys
1 /dev
1 /initrd
1 /lost+found
1 /mnt
1 /.spamassassin
1 /srv
1 /tmp
4 /bin
4 /sbin
11 /root
12 /boot
36 /etc
81 /lib
278 /opt
387 /proc
2166 /usr
6042 /media
11611 /home
18259 /var
38886 /
From this, I determined that, for some reason, the var directory now
occupied over 18 GBs. So, I subsequently run the command
debian:/home/mark# du --max-depth=1 -m /var | sort -g, which indicated
that most of the space was in /var/archives. The contents are:
debian:/home/mark# ls /var/archives
debian-20051024.md5 debian-etc.20051024.tar.gz debian-home.20051024.tar.gz
debian-20051025.md5 debian-etc.20051025.tar.gz debian-home.20051025.tar.gz
I had installed a program "backup-manager", which I tried to run, but
since I saw nothing, I thought nothing of it. I now speculate that
maybe it was creating repeated backups, given the dates of these files.
So, for those more in the know, can I delete these files in
/var/archives? I've since uninstalled backup-manager. And how should I
backup my system?
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