I'm BA-A-A-a-a-ack!
To answer Joe (about bleachbit), I did look at its wikipedia page
quickly. My impression is that it focuses on personal space (/home/...)
rather than system space. What was needed here was a huge amount system
space. I seriously doubt that bleachbit would have helped to a serious
degree. It was a *quick* look, and I plan to come back to this, but for
now, we're focused on recovering space where semi-annual upgrades need
the space.
I won't be doing another upgrade until mid spring, but I believe it wise
to do the space recovery now, while this is fresh on the minds of thread
participants. I'll continue doing patches every week; I did one
successfully with no problemsearlier this afternoon.
Let's please tackle one directory sub-tree at a time. First,
"/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/"...
(Ed said)
And then,
/var/cache/abrt-di/usr
That most likely contains a bunch of core files that are no longer
needed.
(I responded)
That directory looks huge and complex. I saw lots of links
and lots of source code (".c" and ".h" files).
(Samuel then
said)
I don't have anything in that directory. In general, anything in
/var/cache should be deletable,
although something currently running might care about it. In this
case, if you don't have any
abrt reports that you still want to send in, feel free to delete
anything under abrt-di.
I've done a little more statistics on my "/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/".
After doing "cd /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/", and running the appropriate
commands I find it has:
* 6035 sub-directories ("tree -d --du > ~/abrtdi_tree.txt", then "view
~/abrtdi_tree.txt" and looking at the line count).
* 11 levels below .../usr/.
* 35759 'c' language source files ("ls -alR | grep "\.c$" >
~/abrtdi_c.txt", then "view ~/abrtdi_c.txt" and looking at the line
count).
* 24369 'c' language ".h" header files ("ls -alR | grep
"\.h$" >
~/abrtdi_h.txt", then "view ~/abrtdi_h.txt" and looking at the line
count).
* 13827 links ("ls -alR | grep "^l" > ~/abrtdi_l.txt", then
"view
~/abrtdi_l.txt" and looking at the line count).
I do not know if there are any core files in this sub-tree; I don't know
what they would be named, so I don't know how to search for and count
them. The point is that what I do see in there does not look like what
it was said to contain. Is there something about my system's
configuration that is wrong and I don't know it? I hope you understand
my concern and caution about deleting over 6000 directories containing
over 40,000 source files! Let's please be careful and sure about
this!In case it helps, I fpasted "abrtdi_tree.txt" (output from "tree -d
--du > ~/abrtdi_tree.txt") here:
"https://paste.centos.org/view/94c5d039".
Please hold off on discussion/suggestions about journal files and other
things until we get this
"/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/" done!
thanks
Bill.