Re: Filling up linux partition

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 05/31/05

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:50:36 +0100

    On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:34 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
    > Hi all,
    > I see that I have about 2 gigs of my 10 gig partition left. I went
    > hunting for bloat and fund that /var is almost 2 gigs and /usr is
    > almost 4! Does this sound reasonable for a desktop installation? I
    > also found that /selinux 0 bytes big despite the fact that it does
    > contain files and folders. And there is a /srv directory that is
    > empty, along with /proc that is about 500 megs. What are /src and
    > /proc? Should /usr and /var be so big?

    /proc (probably /selinux too) is a virtual filesystem and takes no
    space.

    /var may be full of update packages if you use yum and don't
    periodically do a "yum clean packages", or if you use up2date and don't
    clear out the up2date cache directory from time to time.

    I've no idea what /src is; I don't have one on any system here.

    Paul. 

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Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org>
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