Gigabytes of unused Data?, was Re: KDE 3.3.1 seems to be gradually breaking down here

[Guido Pinkernell]

On Monday 29 November 2004 15:32, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2004 22:56, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 November, 2004 22:26, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
> > > I think I have found a reason for all this. YaST2 says my main
> > > partition (8GBytes) is running out of space (99%), about 15MB left. I
> > > can't remember loading more than 3GBytes onto the harddisk recently,
> > > however Linux has crashed several times in recent hours, so there seems
> > > to be loads of unused data.
> >
> > Well, that, at least, is easy enough to check
> >
> > du -hcx / > report.txt
> >
> > Will give you a pretty complete on where you harddisk space have gone.
>
> I think I have found the bugger:
>
> 3.9M	/tmp/6pSImPjlkw/tmp/info
> 0	/tmp/6pSImPjlkw/tmp/system
> 2.7G	/tmp/6pSImPjlkw/tmp
> 2.7G	/tmp/6pSImPjlkw
>
> ls -l gives a couple of tarballs which have been written yesterday, during
> time of system backup. I think I can safely delete them now.

Did that as root in Konqueror, which sent these files into root trashcan. It 
took me again an hour to find out that their weren't deleted for good. 
Emptied root trashcan as root, and the system now seems to be running 
normally again. Thanks to all who helped. I have learned a lot.

Guido
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