[Gllug] starting X

[mike]

Just a thought - have you got any old build trees hanging around on your
root partition, deleting thses or doing a make clean would clear up some
space

Also it may be an idea to clear out the old log files in /var/log

On 17 Jul 2001 18:13:51 +0100, Mark Preston wrote:
> Thanks for the replies from Alex Hudson, Mike Brodbelt, Nix, and Xander D
> Harkness. 
> 
> 
> After logging in as root I moved all the files from the 
> /tmp directory with
> cd /
> cd tmp
> mv  * /home/mark
> 
> 
> This managed to reduce the used figure 254989
> to 254325, but it is still 100% usage.
> However, when I did rmdir tmp
> I got the message 'tmp' directory not empty.
> Then I did ls -a
> which gave . .. .X11-unix
> I moved this file out and was then able to delete the tmp
> directory with rmdir.
> Then I remade the tmp directory with mkdir as an empty directory.
> 
> The usage is still 100% on /
> so I guess I'll have to find some other files to delete.
> 
> Logging in as root, if I type:- 
> cd /<enter>
> ls <enter>
>  I get :-
> bin   dev   home  lost+found  mnt  proc  sbin   usr
> boot  etc   lib      misc           opt   root   tmp    var
> 
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