Re: /home out of space

PHead <scott_hutter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dunno why... but /home is out of space. My setup is like this:

It's because you've filled it up. Delete something or make it larger.

Your problem is? Is it that you don't know how to list files in home by
order of date or size?

Is that what your question was meant to be?

"How do I list the files in /home to see what has been added most
recently, or what are the largest space hogs, in order that I may delete
the worst culprits"?

Or did you want a breakdown by file type and suffix? Or by directory?


> /dev/hda1 has 3GB free (out of 5) and contains root

What do you mean by "root"? 2GB would be a very small installaton these
days, so I can't believe you mean "/". If OTOH you mean "/root", then
you have been hacked, since /rot should contain almost nothing, and
if you didn't put something there, somebody did! And ne would suppose
they were root.

> /dev/hda6 is 3GB and is where home is, and its full

That's because you've filled it up. Delete something or make it larger.

> Id like to merge both of these into hda1.

No you wouldn't - please stop confusing problem and solution, and
wishes with solutions.


> I know why mandrake wanted
> /home on its own, but clearly this isnt the best choice.

No, clearly it means that you don't understand why it IS the best
choice. You want to take time out to understand it - from here it looks
as though you have been hacked.

> Can I merge
> these two (its one physical hard drive)?

Nu, it's impossible. And against the law. Moreover the moral rights
brigade will come round and see you.

> Also, im a kde nut, so if this can be done via a
> point-and-click-i-dont-wanna-type application, that would be nice.

No - what you want to do is

1) figure out what is going on
2) figure out what to do about it.

If, as it looks, you have been hacked, you want to wake up sharpish.

Your present hazy druggish vague thought patterns don't inspire
confidence. I feel obliged to murmur.

Go look hard about you. At some point you may wish to shrink parttion X
and expand partition Y - but before that you WILL have gne and
investigated, this time thinking "someone is hacking me" every time you
notice the slightest anomaly, instead of saying to yourself "that's odd
- I think I'll get more money out of the bank because it is
disappearing from my pockets without me touching it"!

Peter

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