Disk space full... [solved]

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nr5 · Post by **nr5** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:24 pm

Im having trouble logging in to my gentoo system. I keep getting a message saying "GDM could not write to the autorizationfile, this could lead to full disk space or no write permission..." .

So I removed all >my< but files and everything in
/home/me/.Trash
/root/.Trash
/tmp/

And then i do df -h and i get this....

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# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3             222G  217G     0 100% /

So the thing is, im not using that mush disk space... it has to be Gentoo thats storing stuff on the disk and I have no clue where to look...

Plz help

drwook · Post by **drwook** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:37 pm

eclean -d distfiles ?

tho that disk usage seems pretty high to just be old distfiles

nr5 · Post by **nr5** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:00 pm

That removed about 400mb...

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3 222G 216G 0 100% /

drwook · Post by **drwook** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:06 pm

I'd nuke anything in /var/tmp/portage (shouldn't be much, but...), clear out any old/unused kernel sources, then maybe check out the size of /home and /var (e.g. 'du -h /home' as root to catch any other users files)

[/edit] if you use kde, you could emerge kdirstat. that could be very useful for tracking down what's taking up space. [/edit]

nr5 · Post by **nr5** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:11 pm

I think i found something here:

/var/log/messages
Size: 195.8 GB...

Shouldnt this file zip itself or something? Its huge... Ill remove it after i go through its tail...

drwook · Post by **drwook** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:13 pm

look into logrotate, it's in portage

nr5 · Post by **nr5** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:34 pm

Thanks!

adekoba · Post by **adekoba** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:45 pm

nr5 wrote:I think i found something here:

/var/log/messages
Size: 195.8 GB...

Shouldnt this file zip itself or something? Its huge... Ill remove it after i go through its tail...

hahaha

195 gigs! mine is 1g after a year of use.