On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:33 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > James Wilkinson wrote: > >Gustavo Seabra wrote: > >>I'm running out of space in the / (root) partition. To free some space, > >>I want to clean the temporary files in /tmp, but I heard a while ago > >>that it might break something if done while running a graphical desktop. > >>How can I clean it then? > > > >Log out, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text screen, log in as root, > >check that the output of mount looks sane. > > > How do I know that? is it just trying to find any mention of /tmp there? > That's what I get: > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) Home much space do you have in /home ? On my desktop FC3 machine there is 1.6GB in /usr/share, so you could free up a lot of space in the root partition by moving /usr/share into your /home partition and adding a symlink: # cd / # mv /usr/share /home # ln -s ../home/share /usr/share (assumes you don't already have any file or directory called /home/share) Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
