El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 15:08 +0100, andy escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > try 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. > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Cheers for that. > 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 . >
How about 'df -H'? -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice."
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