[solved!] tmp folder only 87mb

Mr. X · 2007-12-25 20:24:05

I don't know how but my /tmp directory is getting smaller and smaller... It's size is only 87mb now...
I can't remember how much space it had in the beginning, but I know I could place a whole dvd in it....

How can I fix it?

Last edited by Mr. X (2007-12-26 21:14:21)

Allan · 2007-12-25 21:57:56

So you are running out of hard drive space? What is the output of "df -h"?

Mr. X · 2007-12-25 22:34:35

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             7.4G  7.3G   87M  99% /
none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              38M  9.7M   27M  27% /boot
/dev/sda4              67G   50G   17G  75% /home
/dev/sdb1             298G  118G  181G  40% /home/alex/.sata320

ProzacR · 2007-12-25 22:41:29

Mr. X wrote:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.4G 7.3G 87M 99% /
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 38M 9.7M 27M 27% /boot
/dev/sda4 67G 50G 17G 75% /home
/dev/sdb1 298G 118G 181G 40% /home/alex/.sata320

Use
pacman -Sc
To create some space from old stuff.

Last edited by ProzacR (2007-12-25 22:41:57)

Mantaar · 2007-12-25 22:48:12

Well, yes, your root partition is really in a bad situation - it does not have any space left. Try

sudo pacman -Scc

.

Mah. ProzacR was faster..

Last edited by Mantaar (2007-12-25 22:48:47)

Mr. X · 2007-12-25 22:50:44

I tried doing it earlier when I had hd space problems and it worked... But it's not helping me now...

ProzacR · 2007-12-25 22:57:34

Yes this command just deletes pacman downloads storage. It can not give you as much space as you want.

Now only solution left is use gparted to redistribute free space between partitions carefully.

Allan · 2007-12-26 00:13:42

Do you have any desktop environments installed that you no longer use? Same with games or any other old packages. 7.3 Gb worth of packages just seems a lot.

Mantaar · 2007-12-26 00:20:43

I suggest doing a

du -shc /*

to see whether it's really just packages or maybe the /var or /tmp folders that each so much away...

Mr. X · 2007-12-26 06:10:49

Allan wrote:

Do you have any desktop environments installed that you no longer use? Same with games or any other old packages. 7.3 Gb worth of packages just seems a lot.

I have fluxbox as DE, kdelibs that I need for k3b, and a few gnome and xfce4 libs that's needed for icons and thunar... Nothing special...
And all large games that I ever installed were in my ~/.wine directory...
Anyway, I just removed warsow now and a few other packages, and now I have 200mb free in /tmp ... x)

Mantaar wrote:

I suggest doing a
du -shc /*
to see whether it's really just packages or maybe the /var or /tmp folders that each so much away...

here's the output:

# du -shc /*
4.0K    /INSTALL.LOG
4.1M    /bin
9.2M    /boot
456K    /dev
22M     /etc
168G    /home
59M     /lib
0       /media
8.0K    /mnt
753M    /opt
0       /proc
31M     /root
12M     /sbin
0       /srv
0       /sys
8.0K    /tmp
2.1G    /usr
82M     /var
171G    total

Last edited by Mr. X (2007-12-26 06:12:01)

Allan · 2007-12-26 07:56:55

I don't understand that output. Unless I am missing something, that only adds up to less than 4Gb on "/"

Mr. X · 2007-12-26 19:27:41

I did xfs_fsr now, seems like it solved the problem...

here's df -h output:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             7.4G  2.9G  4.5G  40% /
none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              38M  9.7M   27M  27% /boot
/dev/sda4              67G   49G   19G  72% /home
/dev/sdb1             298G  118G  181G  40% /home/alex/.sata320

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[solved!] tmp folder only 87mb

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