Jerry Houston wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Your problem is that you failed to make a /home partition, and your personal files have filled up the root partition.
I don't know if it would help in this situation at all, but I found my server filling up for no good reason I could think of. Then I happened to look at my /tmp directory, and was amazed at what all was there. Don't applications that create temp files ever clean up after themselves anymore?
Sadly, no. That's one reason why I also keep /tmp on a its own partition (also to keep write() activity to a minimum on the root partition -- corrupted root => difficult or no boot-up
I changed to runlevel 1 to make the file system as quiet as possible, removed /tmp/* and /tmp/.*, and gained 112 GB of space.
In the future, boot to runlevel S (or s)
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