[4355] in RedHat Linux List
Re[2]: Creeping /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Thu Nov 14 12:01:17 1996
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:23:45 -0500 (EST)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961114102945.22766F-100000@helix.cs.cuc.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
>
> > My / partition,device,file has expanded and become 100% full, and very
> > little will work now. Is there a fix for this?
> >
> > Why does this happen?
>
> Perhaps you have installed more software, perhaps log files have filled up
> in /var, perhaps temporary files have accumulated in /tmp - look around
> and find out ;-)
>
> > I've got a 30 MB extended partition set aside for /. That should, surely,
> > be big enough for almost anything I might want to do. This is home
>
> 30 MB is quite small, comparitively speaking. I've had a system installed
> in under 30 megs, but there was nothing of interest to me on it ;-) My
> average disk space usage now is around 300 megs, and I have another 400
> megs or so waiting to be used, on my /. Of course, it depends what you do
> on your system - if all you do is use it basically as a terminal, 30M
> should be enough.
Look for one of those *&!% packages that installs into /opt, too. If you don't
have /opt linked to some more reasonable location, then one of these can fill up
your / fast.
Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
