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.
This is important! Some scripts and programs will mount other stuff
under /tmp (e.g. /tmp/windows). If you're not careful, you can delete
stuff you don't mean to delete.
Then remove stuff from under /tmp. Try
shopt -s dotglob
rm -ri /tmp/*
shopt -u dotglob
Or (possibly safer)
find /tmp -xdev -ok rm {} \;
When you're happy with what's happening, replace rm -ri with rm -rf (but
*do* be careful), or -ok with -exec.
Press Alt+F7 to get back to the graphics mode.
Done that, and worked great. Thanks a lot! However, there were a few
weird things: after deleting the /tmp files, when restarted, kde took an
awful lot of time to restart and, when it finally finished, the sound
mixer wasn't working correctly; I had to open alsamixer and crank up the
volume to hear anything (which i never had to do before!)
Other than that, all seems fine. Thank you again!
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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
Chemistry Department
Kansas State University
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