low space on /home partition

[roelof]

Hello,

I get this warning very often.

How can I check which things I can delete the best?

Roelof

 

[SirDice]

Since it's in the home directories only you can tell which files can be deleted.

 

[Crivens]

I can recommend sysutils/gdmap to find out where the most crud has been piled up.

 

[monkeyboy]

I just do a du(1) and see where the big directories are...

 

[Dies_Irae]

A good starting point is searching for files bigger than X (for example 100 Mb):
% find /home -type f -size +100M

or file older than N days (for example 30 days):
% find /home -type f -mtime +30

But none of us knows what you have on your /home partition.

If this is a multi user system, you have two ways:
- the safest (but slowest) way is to ask the other users to delete something
- the fastest (and funniest) way is using the two previous find(1) commands and delete without warning �e

 

[fluca1978]

Moreover, once you have gained some more space, and assuming this is a multi-user system, you can set up quotas to avoid users consuming all the space the system has.