[clue] seeking advice cleaning up root

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:
> if /var/log is in the / partition then that might be the culprit. Log
> rotation scripts are typically driven by logrotate and the
> /etc/logrotate.conf config.  My favorite command for finding "disk
> hogs" is something like "sudo du -x / | sort -n"
>
> good luck
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Mike Bean <mike.bean at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> ,
>> Bit of an adventure, not really sure what happened, but I broke my laptop
>> somehow by filling root, and removing /var/cache/apt freed up a GB and it's
>> working again.   That said, I would still appreciate advice on how to go
>> about putting my root partition on a diet, preferably so this doesn't happen
>> again.  Given my druthers I'd rather it stay below 8GB

If you have a database (e.g. mysql) on the box, you can move
/var/lib/<mysql, etc.> out of / and replace it with a symlink. /tmp
and /var/tmp are also good candidates for moving.



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Collins Richey
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