[wellylug] clogged hard drive problem

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Jan 14 22:33:51 NZDT 2004


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:02:30 +1300 (NZDT), you wrote:

>Hi all,
>I've got a bit of a problem with an overfull root directory in my reasonably 
>newly installed RH9.0 machine. It should be pretty much your standard defult 
>style home computer install. You know, games, open office, gnome. As far as I 
>can see I havent got anything installed which would be hogging heaps of hard 
>drive space although I cant be sure.
>
>I've had a couple of freezes while doing stuff which may possibly have 
>generated some clogging stuff on the drive somewhere.
>
>In order to get some help with this I've found out how much space is being used 
>by each of the root directories. This info may or may not be useful in finding 
>out if I've got any extra crap filling up my HDD.
>bash -    4.5 M
>boot -    5.0 M
>etc  -   10.9 M
>lib  -   46.5 M
>mnt  - 1300.0 M
>proc -  200.0 M
>sbin -   13.4 M
>usr  - 1400.0 M
>var  -   49.0 M
>All adding up to what seems to me to be a hefty 3.1 Gig.
>
>Do any of the above look strangely chubby? Are they all more or less as they 
>should be? What would that 1.3 Gig in /mnt be?
>
>Any help or ideas on how I can find out more would be appreciated 
>
Um, do you have anything mounted on /mnt, like CDs or something?
Where's tmp?

Cheers,

Cliff
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