Hi Lisi, I've install my Debian with very little space in the / partition (I guess I didn't pay much attention on what i was doing) and I get space overflow frecuently :(
Searching posible solutions I found what Kevin says, but not as nice, thanks Kevin to point the pipeline! But I found two more posibilities: Use of localepurge, how many languages do you use? You can get rid of the rest of language packages with his utility! When I ran it, it erased 65Mb of Ucranian, Russian, etc, that I was not going to use :) The other is to install/save stuff where you have more space and then simlimk to /lib, /usr or /etc (depending on your needs). You'll see this with: df -h And have you notice that Trash is a hidden directory? I had a hard time finding it! Hope this helps you out. Cheers, Alba. 2008/12/3, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is > > overflow. I therefore need to do some more deleting. But I am ashamed to > > say that I have not explored /tmp as much as I ought to have, so my > > knowledge > > about what is usually/meant to be there is scant. :-( > > > > Which, if any, of the following files ought I to keep and which can I safely > > delete? > > <quote> > > gconfd-lisi kde-lisi keyring-iiiSCk ksocket-lisi orbit-lisi > > ssh-PwasxA2979 > > </quote> > > > > Thanks. > > Lisi > TMP is not usually a place I need to clean. It is used for 'scratch > space' when programs need to work on something temporarily. /tmp is > usually only a few MB in size. On reboot, most Gnu system clean out tmp. > I'd look for some other place to either: remove unneeded files or move a > big file to another partition or medium(SD disk, backup HDD,..) > > I use: > cd ~ > du -s -m .* *|sort -n > > to show me what is taking up space in a certain location like > /home/$user or /var/cache/ then I can see where the big folders/files > are. This will produce a 2 column output where column one shows the > size in MB of the directory or file and column two show the name of the > file or directory. so if you need say 100 MB more, you'd use the above > script and find the appropriate file/directory and do something to > alleviate the situation. I had a full partition situation and my > fetchmail would not work correctly, so I got rid of some MB of junk and > that fixed it. > > hope that helps, > Kev > -- > | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | > | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| > | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | > | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | > | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | > |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | > |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
