/dev/sda7 is 79% full

[neonix]

Hi,

/dev/sda7 shows that it is 79% full -

Current Disk UsageFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 1012M 750M 211M 79% /
/dev/sdb1 68G 34G 30G 54% /backup
/dev/sda1 99M 68M 27M 72% /boot
/dev/sda5 47G 12G 33G 27% /home
none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 1012M 38M 923M 4% /tmp
/dev/sda2 9.9G 4.6G 4.9G 49% /usr
/dev/sda3 6.9G 2.6G 4.0G 40% /var
/tmp 1012M 38M 923M 4% /var/tmp



root@pac3 [~]# cd /
root@pac3 [/]# ls -al
total 455
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 28 20:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 28 20:51 ../
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 26624 Jan 28 05:25 aquota.user*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 7 21:32 .autofsck
drwx--x--x 5 root root 4096 Jan 10 00:58 backup/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 12 05:26 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3072 Jan 20 05:26 boot/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 Jul 28 2004 client-config-overrides.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7550 May 4 2004 client_config_update.py
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 9 2004 .cpan/
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 118784 Nov 7 21:32 dev/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1169 Jan 3 11:07 error_log
drwxr-xr-x 70 root root 8192 Jan 28 19:49 etc/
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 22 Sep 2 16:19 .forward
drwx--x--x 291 root root 8192 Jan 25 10:03 home/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 28 21:00 .imap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2003 initrd/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 05:25 lib/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 9 2004 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 2004 misc/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 3 2005 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2003 opt/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 20 21:26 perl587installer/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 28 21:00 .pop3
dr-xr-xr-x 189 root root 0 Nov 8 03:01 proc/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1369 Jun 28 2004 public_key.txt
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1033184 Jan 25 10:36 quota.user*
-rw------- 1 root root 1024 Nov 7 21:33 .rnd
drwxr-x--- 21 root root 4096 Jan 28 05:26 root/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Oct 12 05:26 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Jan 28 05:25 scripts/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 24 05:25 .spamassassin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 9 2004 tftpboot/
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 126976 Jan 28 21:00 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:31 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:31 var/


What can I delete to reduce increase free space on the /dev/sda7 partition?

Thanks for your help.

[/bin/bash.org]

That is your / partition. Not much usually gets stored there. Try looking in /root (root's home). You may have downloaded something there as root and not cleaned it up. Otherwise, try something like 'du -sh /*' and look into the directories that don't have their own mountpoints. Like /.cpan /opt /.spamassassin yada. In any case, if it's not growing I wouldn't be /too/ concerned.