Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. What is that? Can I delete it?
On 1/18/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:08:46PM -0600, jie gong wrote: > Hi > I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full. > My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root > partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close. > Where did the space go? > > Here is some output which may be useful. > command: du -hcs /* > > 3.3M /bin > 5.8M /boot > 128K /dev > 23M /etc > 4.0K /fai > 893M /home > 4.0K /initrd > 44M /lib > 16K /lost+found > 4.0K /media > 4.0K /mnt > 4.0K /opt > 507M /proc > 3.8G /root right here. your /root directory is 3.8G. How did you end up with so much crap in /root? /root is the home directory for the root user and should generally not be that full. regardless though, /root is part of / which is /dev/hda6. You have not mounted /root from another partition. So that 3.8G has taken over your / partition. > > Command: df > > I run df, get the following > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% / you have not put /root on another partition, so it is part of this one, which is clearly full. A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFsADLaIeIEqwil4YRAipcAJ44OhTQns+206sjYSTvIrbpxsOpuQCfT+uC cdm2g9HpvHYXgpSqgUls690= =KZJ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
