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From: Pete Puma on 29 Jun 2010 19:08 David Bolt wrote: > du / --max-depth=1 --one-file-system --exclude=/proc \ > --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys | sort -nr > Thanks for that. And here's what I get out of that (now) 32 gig partition: 20071072 / 13481820 /tmp 5643968 /usr 508484 /var 164756 /opt 146932 /lib 83536 /etc 18248 /boot 13368 /sbin 7560 /bin 1356 /srv 1008 /root 16 /lost+found 4 /selinux 4 /mnt 4 /media 4 /home 0 /dev Wow! (Wasn't there a KDE 3.5 app that did a graphic representation of this? Can't remember the name.) One of the magazines recommended BleachBit as a cleaner and I've used it recently, but it doesn't seem to be attacking the KDE temp files as check- marked. http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net I just ran a "BleachBit" analysis before wiping anything and it offered to recover 7.6MB, which doesn't solve my problems too well. As far as virus and rootkits go, I installed what I feel is an excellent Linux app, BitDefender's free home user version and of course, RKHunter and "check rootkit". BD scored really well in a test by one of the magazines a few months ago. I need to learn a better way to eliminate temp files. How do I attack these temp files?
From: mjt on 29 Jun 2010 19:21 On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:08:24 -0400 Pete Puma <pete(a)puma.org> wrote: > I need to learn a better way to eliminate temp files. How do I attack these > temp files? Yast -> System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor System -> Cron -> ... the first six entries should be of interest, especially CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP and TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR would be a good start for a quick fix. As I mentioned, if you have Yast (Software) set to save packages, it will consume a lot of space (/var/cache). You could run zypper's clean command to clear them up ... the "-a" switch will clean up the packages and meta-data (you'll most likely want to keep the meta-data). mtobler(a)ren:~> sudo zypper clean root's password: All repositories have been cleaned up. mtobler(a)ren:~> Be sure you have your browsers set to clear their cache every now and then. -- If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to end, they'd be a lot more comfortable. -- "Graffiti in the Big Ten" <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Ulick Magee on 29 Jun 2010 19:31 Pete Puma wrote: > > I need to learn a better way to eliminate temp files. How do I attack these > temp files? Depends what is generating them. That is a LOT of stuff in /tmp. A default openSUSE install doesn't normally generate a lot of space-consuming stuff over time, so what have you changed? Depends also on whether your system periodically reboots or stays up for a long time. Depending on what it is, the solution could be to turn off verbose logging on whatever is generating this, or maybe a cron job to keep logs for only whatever length of time is appropriate, and delete older stuff. Or you might want to keep logs for a long time but compress them so they can be read if needed but take up less space if not. It depends on what you need. -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org
From: Pete Puma on 29 Jun 2010 19:38 Ulick Magee wrote: > Pete Puma wrote: >> >> I need to learn a better way to eliminate temp files. How do I attack >> these temp files? > > Depends what is generating them. That is a LOT of stuff in /tmp. > > A default openSUSE install doesn't normally generate a lot of > space-consuming stuff over time, so what have you changed? > > Depends also on whether your system periodically reboots or stays up for > a long time. > > Depending on what it is, the solution could be to turn off verbose > logging on whatever is generating this, or maybe a cron job to keep logs > for only whatever length of time is appropriate, and delete older stuff. > Or you might want to keep logs for a long time but compress them so they > can be read if needed but take up less space if not. It depends on what > you need. I did add Gnome and some new repositories for the latest files, etc. Still, that's a ton of temps. Ya think?
From: mjt on 29 Jun 2010 19:38
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:08:24 -0400 Pete Puma <pete(a)puma.org> wrote: > Wow! (Wasn't there a KDE 3.5 app that did a graphic representation of this? > Can't remember the name.) Yes, it's called "kde3-filelight" and is avail in the main repository Filelight creates a complex, but data-rich graphical representation of the files and directories on your computer. There's "kdirstat" ... -- IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS; And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |