On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:30:41 -0600, Syl <jkatz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Try clearing old stuff out of /tmp and /var/log. Clean up your yum > > cache ("yum clean all"). As for the rest, do some selective "du -h" > > operations in various directories under "/", see what's sucking up the > > space and clean out that which seems appropriate. > > I have done that. /tmp and /var/log are not very big. The culprit seems to > be packages in /usr/share like xemacs which I never use. I have only been > installing/removing packages from the 'Add Remove Packages' tool. It no > longer seems to works properly - now all it does is give me a long list of > packages that are not installed and tell me that I cannot uninstall the > packages I requested to be uninstalled. > > How do I manually remove packages like xemacs which I don't use? > > > Just another reason it's really a bad idea to have a monolithic "/" > > filesystem. > > Hmmm - not sure what you mean. /home and /data which are in separate > partitions. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > How would one go about deleting all the stuff in /tmp & /var/log ? to remove some applications try it using yum yum remove xemacs -- Jim Lawrence Registered Linux User: #376813 ******************************************************** When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself. ************************************