rootfs size

[androidcoolguy]

I am not sure I remember correctly, but I read before that the total size of a brand new guruplug server plus's root directory i.e. / is like 250MB. Mine is like 500MB, do you know what could have occupied so much space?

Thanks.

[androidcoolguy]

I am new to Linux too. So this is another question.  I noticed when I started couples of weeks back, the rootfs / was around 250MB. I performed multiple soft links e.g.

ln -s /media/usb0 /disk1

ln -s /media/usb1 /disk2

ln -s /media/usb3 /disk3

I remove some of the above USBs, but I don't think I unmount it properly. Could that contributed to some extra large file (corruption) in the rootfs?

Thanks for any insight.

[spinifex]

Start with

Code:

# du -sh /var

[androidcoolguy]

It showed 178MB.  Almost accounts for the "missing" space, can I remove anything under /var?

Thanks.

[spinifex]

Experiment. Backup before you try anything.

Code:

du -h --max-depth 1 /var

1. log

Refine your /etc/rsyslog.conf and /etc/logrotate.conf setups to minimize the size of your logs. You can delete logfiles that are not in use.

2.  apt

Try

Code:

# apt-get autoremove
# apt-get autoclean

The largest directory generated by apt is usually  /var/cache/apt

3.   Doc.

If you do not want man pages and docs you can delete files in the following directories
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/doc-base


You might also check out localepurge

[androidcoolguy]

/var/log is only around 6MB, but localepurge helped to cut another 33MB! Thanks for that. There are still another 200 to 250 MB unaccounted for. I used some script to scan for largest files, could not find any suspicious candidate to remove.

Might it be that there are thousands of small files lying somewhere that I do not know how to scan for?

[spinifex]

du reports the size directory contents so -

Code:

# du -sh /var |grep M

should nail it