[ale] What is safe to delete?

[James P. Kinney III]

du -k --depth=1 is your friend. 

If the / partition is filling up, you need to check:
/tmp  is it full of old stuff that needs to be deleted?
/var/[log spool/mail] if the logfiles are not being rotated or there is
an ongoing error filling up syslog, that is a frequent problem.
/var/spool/mail may also be filling up with notices to root about events
logwatch is seeing, portsentry is seeing, etc.

You might also have been attacked and some black hat SOB is using your
box as a warez ftp site.


n Fri, 2002-01-18 at 10:50, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Another question...
> 
> A guy I contracted with to set up a box for me made the / partition 3 GB.  Well, this should be enough, but this thing is almost full.
> 
> Is there an easy way to find out what is taking up so much space?
> 
> Also, is there a way to make the ls -al listing show the size of the Directories?  Not just the directory *entries*, but how much disk space all of the files in that directory are taking up on disk?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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