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 <PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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
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