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

[David Rosenstrauch]

+1 on what Tim said to identify the folder tree that's hogging the most 
disk (e.g., /home).  Next step then would be to take the culprit, move 
it to a different disk, and tell fstab to mount it at boot.

HTH,

DR

On 10/23/2012 02:24 PM, Tim Lyons wrote:
> 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
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>> Does anyone have suggestions on how to free up space   on a RedHat
>> RHEL 5 system?
>>
>>
>> It is an   ext3  file system
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>> It's  root partition is totally (100%) full
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>> /var   is on a separate partition.
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>> I cannot seem to locate any unnecessary file to delete.
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>>
>> Any ideas?
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>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> John Malloy
>> jomalloy at gmail.com
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