On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:49 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 6/8/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:57 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Yes, when I checked the directory tree I check /tmp. It is empty. As > > > about the only thing that I can do on this machine is browse the web, > > > I have been looking for a command that will show me all large > > > files/directories. I thought that df would do it, but man doesn't seem > > > to know of any option that would do this. Nor does google! > > > > > > How does one go about searching for bloat? All the obvious (logs, tmp, > > > yum clean all) leave no hints. > > > > If you're looking for bloat I guess you mean large packages that are > > worth removing. Try this (all one line): > > > > $ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort -rn > > > bloat.txt > > > > The resulting file bloat.txt will be a list of all of your RPM packages, > > sorted by the amount of disk space they use, biggest at the top. Look > > down that list for packages you don't use and "rpm -e" them. If you're > > not sure what a package is, try "rpm -qi packagename" to find out. If > > another package has a dependency on the one you're trying to remove, rpm > > will tell you about it. > > > > Paul. > > -- > > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > I just did Paul's: > > > $ rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort -rn > > > bloat.txt > > and it wasn't hard to figure out how to add up all the disk space. The > biggest packages are: > 449899240 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.4-0.2.kde > 155003743 openoffice.org-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde > 122472528 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde > 98835391 AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1 > 79886968 Omni-0.9.2-1.1 > 59179686 j2re-1.4.2-11.1.fc3.rf > 56605520 emacs-common-21.3-21.FC3 > 54976367 wine-20041201-1fc3winehq > 50344454 glibc-common-2.3.5-0.fc3.1 > > but the total came out to almost 4 gigs! Thats for 941 packages! What > can I remove? Obviously I don't want to remove OpenOffice or Adobe > Reader. I suppose that I could do without j2re, and I don't exactly > remember what Omni is. > > I put the list up at http://dotancohen.com/bloat.txt if anyone cares > to take a look and advise me. Things like glibc-common have no meaning > to me whatsoever, but googleing around led me to believe that lots of > things will break if I remove it. > > I would wait and install FC4, but we need this computer daily. Thanks friends. If you don't use emacs, try removing it: # yum remove emacs-common If you don't use wine, try removing it: # yum remove wine 0mni is used by the print system (remember you can use "rpm -qi 0mni" to find out what 0mni does). glibc-common is most of the core C library and is used by virtually every binary on the system. I suspect you have a lot of files in places other than /usr though. Perhaps /var? What's the output of: # du -ks /var/* Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>