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Posted May 23, 2008 at 7:09:24 PM
Subject: /dev/sda2

I see the listed when I issue the df. It shows Use% 95% and Mounted on as /

I would guess that 95% of the /dev/sda2 file has only 5% left in it.

What can I do to decrease that number.

Thanks
Kevin

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tophandcwby
Joined Apr 10, 2008
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Posted: May 23, 2008 7:53:55 PM
Subject: /dev/sda2

That depends on a number of things. Is this your only partition or do you have /home mounted on a separate partition? What distribution are you using? Is /var a separate partition? Could you give us the complete output of df ?

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jkcrowley
Joined May 23, 2008
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Posted: May 23, 2008 8:43:16 PM
Subject: /dev/sda2

/root$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 67796916 60736804 3616180 95% /
/dev/sda1 101089 15037 80833 16% /boot
none 1027664 0 1027664 0% / dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 1269065740 260710992 943889924 22% /usr


I hope thjis helps. I have just started.

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Anthony Robbins

Joined May 06, 2008
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Posted: May 24, 2008 12:36:22 PM
Subject: /dev/sda2

it looks like you have everything (except for /usr) on that partition.
df -h makes it a lot easier to read things.
most likely you have a lot of stuff under /home and/or /var
for example you could use du -sh /home/* to check for disk usage under /home for each directory.
you can try cleaning the log files (/var/log), check for stuff under /tmp and /var/tmp check for databases/log (mysql stores them under /var/lib/mysql but DON'T delete anything from it unless you know exactly what you're doing)
you could also try running eg.
find /home -type f -size +100M
it display any file bigger than 100MB under /home and it's a good way to find stuff that you forgot to delete (archives) eating up your disk space

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proopnarine

Joined Apr 03, 2008
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Posted: May 25, 2008 4:41:04 AM
Subject: /dev/sda2

Yeah, well said. Try posting the output from df -m. It seems, I would guess, that /home is taking up a lot or most of the room in the / partition. I would recommend always creating /home as a separate partition. The easiest thing for you to do would be to backup and remove some material from your home directory.

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