[wplug] reclaiming disk space...

[Bryon Gill]

One other tip - if you're using yum or apt, the packages may be kept in a cache 
(/var/cache/apt/archives on my FC1 machine here, yours may differ slightly), 
you could free up some space by deleting the cached rpm files.

Bryon

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, James O'Kane wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Mike wrote:
>
>> Threw another low end system together with a small drive in it..
>> trying to free up some space by removing unneeded packages..
>>
>> After I finished up with the package manager I still show the same
>> space I had before as free with DF.
>>
>> A check with RPM shows the packages are not installed..
>
>
> If these were packages that had running processes, and for whatever reason
> didn't stop the process, those processes could be holding drive space due
> to open filehandles. You can either hunt them down and stop them, or
> reboot. I'm also not positive this happens with any rpms.
>
> There is an option to rpm that will repackage rpms when you remove them.
> It puts them into /var/spool/repackage
>
> Depending on the purpose of the machine and assuming you're using ext2/3,
> you might want to adjust the reserved disk percentage. Take a look at the
> man page for tune2fs and see the -m option. The reserved blocks are for
> root to still be able to write things in the event that various users fill
> the disk. Root would still be able to edit config files, etc and keep the
> machine running. That might not matter to you if this is a test machine.
> And on some large partitions, the default 5% starts to get fairly large.
>
>
> Another thing I like to do if I'm really, really hurting for space is to
> periodically remove everything under /usr/share/doc. This will cause some
> rpm operations to complain because you've deleted files it associates with
> part of some package, but they are usually README files or similar.
>
> I also like to use 'du -smc * |sort -n' to help find large directories and
> files.
>
>
> -james
>
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