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Re: Root partition full



> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote:
> > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root 
> > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
> > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk  or there is any 
> > other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is full 
> > since all the applications are stored in my home partition

On 14.07.07 20:48, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> This is a big reason to have more than /, swap, and /home.  

yes, /var. That should be enough for most installations.

> Check /var.  Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache.  The FHS says that files
> in /var/cache "is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or
> calculation.  The application must be able to regenerate or restore the
> data.  Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data
> loss.

I'd say the problem may lie in /var/log.

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