If you can, I'd sort the files in the filesystems using.... du / | sort -nr > somefile
Page through the entries... less somefile And remove what I could... I hope this helps... Shawn ...see what's the biggest and work from there to do the deletes... On 5/13/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 03:37 +0000, James wrote: > > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > > > -r-------- 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > > > Kernel images are only this big: > > -rw------- 1 root root 2298699 Apr 30 00:17 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6B > > > > > > the kcore file is killing a 500 M partion. > > bollocks, /proc is a figment of the kernel's imagination, a virtual > filesystem, it takes up no room on your hard drive. > > cd / > du --max-depth=1|sort -n > > keep drilling down to the biggest directories. > > > > > Ideas on what to do? > > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
