On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:52 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote: > Hi, Anyone > Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box. > (My wife is paranoid that way.) KDiskFree showed my root partition a > bit over 50% full. Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago, > it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit. The > file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if > that makes a difference. Has anyone run into this? Is there a tool I > can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify > the cause? I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that > only recovered about 350 mB; I'm still missing some 5 gig. > Cheers, > Gordon Keehn Did you do any updates since you've turned on the computer? How many kernels do you have installed? rpm -qa | grep kernel If you have more than one, cd /lib/modules du -s | sort -nr and you will see how much space each of the kernels occupies. Uninstall the ones you no longer use.
