Paul Howarth wrote:
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.
Thanks. I thought about doing this, since I still have plenty of space
in /home, but I didn't know exactly how to do it. However, I still would
like to make the cleanup of /tmp (and now maybe /var) automatic.
--
----------------------------------
Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
Chemistry Department
Kansas State University
----------------------------------
If at first you don't succeed...
...skydiving is not for you.
