Am 29. Oct, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: moin moin, > I could not sleep so I got back up to check this out. Turns out that > /usr/lib is5.1 GB and /usr/share is 3.9 GB. Nothing else is very big. > Guess I need to uninstall some things or resize the partition. You could also move /usr/share to your home partition and symlink it back. /usr/share is designed to be shared resource, so moving it elsewhere is harmless as long as you put the symlink in. ciao, der.hans > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, der.hans wrote: > >> Am 28. Oct, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: >> >> moin moin, >> >> >> On one of my machines I have two partitions for Ubuntu. They are mounted >>> as / and /home. I am getting a message saying the root filesystem is >>> nearly full. When I run df -h, it shows me that /dev/sda5 is mounted as / >>> and had 13.5 GB of 14 GB used. After I cleaned up some old kernels, >>> unused >>> packages and a couple of other thing, it showed something like 11.5 GB of >>> 14 GB used. >>> >>> My question is: What is the best way to find what else is overcrowding /? >>> In other words to do something like run du but restrict it to /dev/sda5. >>> >>> Sorry, I am on a Windows system ATM. >>> >> >> Try 'du -sh /root /lib* /usr /var /tmp' is a good start. /root should >> be small, but can pick up cruft. In your case probably not since it's a >> self-adminned system using sudo :). Normally I would also include /boot, >> but if you removed old kernel packages that should be rather small. >> >> Most likely you'll be cleaning out /tmp if you don't boot very often or >> something in /var. >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> -- >> # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/**Classes/ >> # If you don't think for yourself, others will think for you -- >> # to their advantage. -- Harold Gordon >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson