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

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:12:03PM -0400, John Malloy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Do you have free space on another disk? Can you add one,
> temporarily, via USB or otherwise?
>
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A review of ls -la / shows nothing special?

Is /home also part of /?   If so, might there be unwanted files in
someone's directory?

What about system permissions?    Might one or more files have been
written to places they should not have?

What does a du -h / show?

How about df -h?

Scott