On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:05:36 +0530, C
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:12, Oddball wrote:
Hi list,
I have to throw some bites away, but when i look, i cannot find where all space went.. How can i see which files absorb all the space? If i throw something away with shift-del, does it realy dissappear from the disk of does it remain in some obscure unseen recycle bin? If there exists a recycle bin, where does it linger? How do i call upon it, to see if there is something in it?
Assuming you've already emptied your trash in whatever desktop environ you're using.. have you poked your /tmp? That can fill up with debris of failed downloads, extracted files, flash videos you've watched etc.
in case you're running MySQL, that also creates a lot of binary backups of transactions. once i had several GB of such backups that weren't required. you find them in /var/lib/mysql, named mysql-bin.xxxxxx. unless you have important DBs on your machine and need the option to roll back transactions, they can be deleted. (once i deleted those bin-files, MySQL wouldn't start anymore until i deleted mysql-bin.index as well, which was then recreated.) -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org