[Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

Tim Lyons lyons at geekcq.com
Tue Oct 23 14:24:10 EDT 2012


On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:12:03 -0400
John Malloy <jomalloy at gmail.com> wrote:

login as root
cd /
run du --max-depth=1 -x -h .
Look for the biggest user of space and cd into that directory
(e.g. /home)
run the "du" command above again, 

Should point you in the right direction.


--Tim




> Does anyone have suggestions on how to free up space   on a RedHat
> RHEL 5 system?
> 
> 
> It is an   ext3  file system
> 
> It's  root partition is totally (100%) full
> 
> 
> /var   is on a separate partition.
> 
> 
> I cannot seem to locate any unnecessary file to delete.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> John Malloy
> jomalloy at gmail.com
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