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Hello everbody.

I know this is a simple question for you guys, but my root file system or partition, which is the right word.

It´s full 100%, which files can I remove, and my usr partition has 86% in this one which files can I remove too.

Thanks for your help

Well I'm guessing you just downloaded a ton of programs and saved the tarball packages or installation files on the root partition. You just have to go through it yourself and delete all those and everything you dont need.

If /var and /tmp aren't on seperate partitions, you might be asking for trouble too.

Check that /tmp isn't full of junk, if it is, clear it.

Also, check /var/log/* or /var/adm/* to see if log files are swelling.

Use df and du to find out where the space hogs are.
Posting the output of df (or bdf - depending on OS) may be useful here.

Also - /home - is it on a seperate partition?

Cheers
ZB

Thanks to Synbios and zazzybob. This is my output of df -k
command

root# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1018382 986565 0 100% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 1018382 822246 135034 86% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 1018382 28034 929246 3% /var
swap 3785552 16 3785536 1% /var/run
swap 3785552 16 3785536 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 1018382 400062 557218 42% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 1953189 9 1894585 1% /oracle
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 493688 51097 393223 12% /export/home

My packages and all the installation are on /opt

This is my output of /var/adm and /var/log

var/adm

drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 Aug 17 19:47 acct
-rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 Aug 17 19:23 aculog
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Aug 17 19:23 exacct
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 28084 Oct 12 17:23 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Aug 17 19:23 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 12794 Oct 12 17:24 messages
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Aug 17 19:23 passwd
drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 Aug 17 19:47 sa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Aug 17 19:37 sm.bin
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 Aug 17 19:23 spellhist
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Aug 17 19:23 streams
-rw------- 1 root root 769 Oct 12 17:23 sulog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3348 Oct 12 17:23 utmpx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 351 Aug 18 17:50 vold.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 226176 Oct 12 17:23 wtmpx

and this is var/log

-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Aug 17 19:23 authlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 261 Aug 17 19:43 sysidconfig.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 5482 Oct 12 17:23 syslog


Any help or tip would be great .

Thanks in advance

I would take a closer look at /root and consider moving what you can to other partitions. Symbolic links can help ease the pain.

The du command might be useful.


Neo

search for core dump which can also cause / directory to fill up

do the following

find / -name core 2>/dev/null

this will show you if you have any core dump which you can delete and this will free up space.