[wellylug] clogged hard drive problem

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:02, Jeremy Z Butler 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 

What have you installed, since we installed redhat 9 on it?

I think it was under 2 gb....


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