[wplug] reclaiming disk space...

[Mike]

Intresting, I rebooted yesterday and didn't see a difference, but
today I turned the machine on and there is my free space..

Thanks for the help guys!

-mike


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:39:05 -0400 (EDT), Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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