Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
Cheers for that.El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 07:16 +0100, andy escribió:<snip>Hello 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? Thanks Andytry with this: # apt-get clean and then verify the free space with: df -h cheers,Hello all Thanks for the slew of rapid responses. Apologies for not giving sufficient info on my partitioning scheme. Here's the scoop: / = 12GB SWAP = 2.8GB /home = 168GB No separate /var /tmp, etc. Having run apt-get clean / is now down to 56%. I suspect that the balance of the usage is in /var with different logs and mail. As an aside, I seem to be missing approx 18GB of HD space - this is a 200GB HD, but adding the values given above totals 182GB. Strange, and I cannot track it down anywhere, and I don't dual-boot, so unless 200GB was listed on the packaging as an approximation, almost 20GB have gone AWOL.Run 'parted /dev/yourdisk' and in parted's prompt enter 'print'. It will tell you where each partition begins and ends. There might be empty (unpartitioned) space between partitions or at the end/beginning of disk. [...] Nope - parted shows that all drive space is present and accounted for. But, there still seems to be a missing 18GB of HD when I run df -h . Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" |