Freeing some partition space...

[Gustavo Seabra]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:33 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>James Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>>>I'm running out of space in the / (root) partition. To free some space, 
>>>>I want to clean the temporary files in /tmp, but I heard a while ago 
>>>>that it might break something if done while running a graphical desktop. 
>>>>How can I clean it then?
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>>>Log out, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text screen, log in as root,
>>>check that the output of mount looks sane.
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>>How do I know that? is it just trying to find any mention of /tmp there? 
>>That's what I get:
>>/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
>>none on /proc type proc (rw)
>>none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
>>none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>>usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
>>/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
>>none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
>>/dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
>>none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
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>Home much space do you have in /home ?
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>On my desktop FC3 machine there is 1.6GB in /usr/share, so you could
>free up a lot of space in the root partition by moving /usr/share into
>your /home partition and adding a symlink:
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># cd /
># mv /usr/share /home
># ln -s ../home/share /usr/share
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>(assumes you don't already have any file or directory
>called /home/share)
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>Paul.
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Thanks. I thought about doing this, since I still have plenty of space 
in /home, but I didn't know exactly how to do it. However, I still would 
like to make the cleanup of /tmp (and now maybe /var) automatic.

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