On Sunday 12 January 2003 13:07, Nadav Har'El wrote:
people, what all the fuss about ?
didn't shoshnnah ONLY want to know how much free space she has on each
partition ? what's wrong with a simple "df -h" ? :)
as for the OO installation, my guess is that its a simple low space in /tmp or
~/tmp issue.
tal.
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003, Shoshannah Forbes wrote about "Dealing with low disk
space":
> > Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is
> > using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a
> > mess?
>
> Several people suggested "du" to you.
> Du would be very useful when used on your own home directory, to find
> files which you created and that you consider are safe to delete.
>
> But it's not very useful outside your own directory; When du tells you
> that "/usr" takes 2 GB, how do you know what in there you can safely
> delete?
>
> Also, when running on an RPM-based system (such as Redhat) you are not
> supposed (usually) to remove individual programs - you are supposed to
> remove a package, which removes the program along with whichever other
> files were installed with it.
> Another benefit of using "rpm -e packagename" to remove a whole package
> instead of trying to remove individual files yourself, is that "rpm -e"
> won't let you remove something that something else depends on.
> For example, it won't let you remove some shared library you think is not
> important, if another program is using that library and you didn't remove
> that other program first.
>
> What you'll probably want to do is to list all the packages on your system
> in size-order (so that you can focus on checking and maybe deleting the
> largest ones). Do this by running
>
> rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME} %{SIZE}\n" -a | sort +1nr | less
>
> Now, look at the largest RPMs. If you can't what a certain RPM is, run
>
> rpm -qil packagename | less
>
> to show you the package's description ('i') and the files it includes
> ('l').
>
> When a package seems useless to you, say a package of Swedish translations
> of KDE messages, feel free to "rpm -e" it (you'll need to run "rpm -e" as
> root, obviously).
> Rpm -e will, again, refuse to remove packages that something else depends
> on, so you have nothing to fear.
>
> Just try not to remove packages that you use yourself ;)
>
> Another tip: on Redhat, many libraries come in two seperate packages,
> a normal package and a -devel packages (for example "gnome-libs" and
> "gnome-libs-devel"). If you are never planning to compile anything on your
> machine, you can remove most of these -devel packages. I would leave
> glibc-devel behind, though - because without it you'll not be able to
> compile any C program, at all (hmm, some people might not even care about
> that).
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