On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 00:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

Carl Spitzer {L Juno} composed on 2021-03-11 22:54 (UTC-0500):

> this DV6000 is running 11.4 as it only holds 2gig memory.

> root is filling up there was once 4gig free now down to 1.5 gig end of
> last year and now only 1.3 gig.

> Where do I look for the problem??
										
I always start in /var/log/, particularly in /var/log/journal/ if it exists. I

   du -ch /var/log/
4.0K    /var/log/apache2
8.1M    /var/log/YaST2
696K    /var/log/zypp
4.3M    /var/log/ConsoleKit
4.0K    /var/log/krb5
1012K   /var/log/cups
704K    /var/log/gdm
448K    /var/log/audit
8.0K    /var/log/smpppd
4.0K    /var/log/news
4.0K    /var/log/samba
452K    /var/log/CDWserver
4.0K    /var/log/apparmor/reports-archived
4.0K    /var/log/apparmor/reports
4.0K    /var/log/apparmor/reports-exported
16K     /var/log/apparmor
56M     /var/log/
56M     total


Check the /var/cache/zypp/packages/ tree.

2.4G /var/cache/zypp/packages/
2.4G total

How many kernels are installed? An installation that old ought to be fine with
only one, two at the most.

Is old stuff accumulating in /tmp/?

/tmp gets cleaned out routinely even root.
cd /tmp ; rm -rf * then reboot.

CWSIV

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