Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/13/2016 02:00 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 11/13/2016 03:02 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/12/2016 03:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: 17472/var/cache/PackageKit 5597/var/cache/yum That's not a lot of space used. I think you should look elsewhere to recover space. It is, he had

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/13/2016 09:01 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/13/2016 03:50 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: When from now on I start using PackageKit as the tool to update the packages, will that eventually clean up my /var/cache/PackageKit? Yes, it will remove packages after they are applied. At this poi

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/13/2016 03:50 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: When from now on I start using PackageKit as the tool to update the packages, will that eventually clean up my /var/cache/PackageKit? Yes, it will remove packages after they are applied. ___ users mail

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-13 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Now I am not sure what to do. I want to delete unnecessary files. But here my knowledge of the filesystem ends. Probably a stupid question, but I am going to ask anyway; can I delete /var/cache/PackageKit, or will that ruin my system? You're probably using "dnf" to update packages rather than rebo

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-13 Thread fred roller
Could always move the bloated directories to the /home/[user]/JIC/ directory and restart. IF an issue arises then it is fairly simple to boot from live thumb-drive or some-such and move the directories back effectively restoring the system in a worse case scenario. -- Fred ___

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/13/2016 03:02 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/12/2016 03:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: >> 17472/var/cache/PackageKit >> 5597/var/cache/yum >> > That's not a lot of space used. I think you should look elsewhere to recover > space. It is, he had a "-m" option. -- Roberto Ragusa

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/12/2016 03:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: 17472/var/cache/PackageKit 5597/var/cache/yum That's not a lot of space used. I think you should look elsewhere to recover space. Now I am not sure what to do. I want to delete unnecessary files. But here my knowledge of the filesystem

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-12 Thread Michael Kuryshev
Off-topic, but there is a very handy utility named ncdu. It's ncurses variant of du. Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Nov 2016, at 02:51, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > > My system compalined of a low disk space on filesystem root. > Root consists of 50GB, > df -h showed an usage

Re: low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/12/2016 03:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Now I am not sure what to do. I want to delete unnecessary files. But here my knowledge of the filesystem ends. Probably a stupid question, but I am going to ask anyway; can I delete /var/cache/PackageKit, or will that ruin my system? You're p

low disk space on "filesystem root"

2016-11-12 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
My system compalined of a low disk space on filesystem root. Root consists of 50GB, df -h showed an usage of 100%. I did some cleaning, : dnf clean all, removed an kernel (there were three), removed a lot op files in /tmp and I ran Beachbit. I have gained some room: $ df -h Filesystem