On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your help, Kevin. As I said, I have never had to do anything to tmp before. But it has not cleaned up at boot and the fact that it is 100% full is causing problems. This is a direct result of the mess I created when I messed up my backup. I have deleted the bulk of the stuff wrongly placed on my root partition - so most things are working fine again - and am left with this 100% filled tmp. From what you say, I can safely delete the lot? After all, if it should have been cleaned up automatically, it can't hurt if I clean it up manually? The partition is now only ~20% full, so I have loads of space. But since at least these files shouldn't be in tmp, I would rather delete them than start messing around with the filing system. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
