[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up...

[Wayne Dahl]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:29, Rev. wRy wrote:

> Depends on your settings for up2date.  If you run the Update 
> Configuration Settings program, there is a tab regarding 
> retrieval/installation options - one of them is "After installation keep 
> binary packages on disk".   Uncheck it and don't worry about it after 
> that if you plan on keeping your info in /var/spool/up2date.
> 
> > So, if it just adds them and the new packages run with
> > no problems, I can just remove the old packages and clear that disk
> > space, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>  > What are your recommendations?
> 
> edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and change the following:
> 
> storageDir[comment]=Where to store packages and other data when they are 
> retrieved
> storageDir=/var/spool/up2date
> 
> To
> 
> storageDir=/wherever/you/have/lots/of/space

I checked that and it's where the default is..../var/spool/up2date and
that's ok because /var is in its own partition and has 1.5 GB free out
of 2.2 GB.  I know this is going to sound stupid to most of you, but I
was able to free up over 41 MB's of space in the / directory because
/root is in that same partition...and I removed all the emails from
Evolution as the /root user.  Now I hear you saying, "Why are you
logging onto Evolution as root????"  Keep in mind, I'm a paranoid
Windoze user who  is used to losing things in Windoze when Scandisk
doesn't know what to do with a bad file and just puts into a file of its
own on the hard drive somewhere, usually in / unless you tell it
otherwise.  I've had a couple of bad experiences with Linux where my
user accounts were hosed and I couldn't get into them to check email or
to ask for help, so signing in as / was all I *could* do to access
Evolution until I could get my problems resolved.  I have the same
address book and filters in the /root account for Evolution as in my
regular (Gnome) and test (KDE) accounts.  I'm still trying to decide if
I want to run Gnome or KDE.  They both have their good points and bad
points, although I'm sort of leaning towards KDE.

To answer Darin's question about what I consider to be "major"
directories...or, I guess the directories that I've put in their own
partitions, they are as below...and I came up with this list from some
install guide I found somewhere...can't remember where at this time...

/		341 Megs
/boot		53.2 Megs
/swap		467.6 Megs (this is actually a little smaller than it 			   
should be, from what I've read as I have 256 Megs 			    Megs of memory
in this machine, but it seems to 			    work ok.)
/tmp		1.3 Gigs
/var		2.2 Gigs
/opt		3.8 Gigs  I'ved actually used this space to install some 			 
software to evaluate...like Star Office.
/usr/local	2.4 Gigs
/usr/src	2.4 Gigs
/home		9.1 Gigs
/usr		9.1 Gigs

I thought I had a separate partition for /root, but I see I don't, but I
don't guess that's really a problem.

Based on the problems I have had in the past, I have the root login set
up as any other account on my machine, ie, I have Netscape, Evolution,
etc set up on it.  I just try not to use it unless I have to.

For you Evolution users, is there any way you know of that you can turn
an email box you have into an archive that Evolution can use later, but
saves hard drive space?  I haven't seen anything like that in the help
files for Evolution.

And have I just not been paying attention or did Red Hat skip any major
(or minor) revisions of RH 8.0 and go straight to 9.0?  I don't remember
seeing any announcements of an 8.01 or 8.1 or any other release before I
started seeing people referring to release of 9.0?  And those of you
that have done the upgrade, what do you think?  Is it better?  Did they
fix some of the things they broke going from 7.3 to 8.0 (like no way to
add items to or manipulate the menus}?

Thanks for your help guys and I'll continue looking for what else is
eating up that / partition.

Wayne