Freeing up space dev/sda5

[vlallo]

Hi I'm looking to free up some space on dev/sda5 which appears to be mounted on ./ directory on my linux centos 6 configuration as you can see below.

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 9.9G 9.7G 0 100% /
tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 56M 38M 60% /boot
/dev/sda8 332G 22G 294G 7% /home
/dev/sda7 1008M 34M 924M 4% /tmp
/dev/sda3 15G 3.9G 11G 28% /usr
/dev/sda2 99G 3.9G 90G 5% /var

Through my search it appears that my cpanel backups were going into the above directory i have since changed it to point somewhere else. My question is will it be safe to delete the below files from /backup directory without harming my server? Thank you in advanced to whomever can help me.

cd /
cd ./backup
du -h

1.3G ./2014-01-24/accounts
104K ./2014-01-24/system/files
96M ./2014-01-24/system/dirs
96M ./2014-01-24/system
1.3G ./2014-01-24
4.0K ./2014-01-20/accounts
104K ./2014-01-20/system/files
11M ./2014-01-20/system/dirs
11M ./2014-01-20/system
11M ./2014-01-20
2.0G ./2014-01-21/accounts
104K ./2014-01-21/system/files
96M ./2014-01-21/system/dirs
96M ./2014-01-21/system
2.1G ./2014-01-21
2.8G ./2014-01-23/accounts
104K ./2014-01-23/system/files
96M ./2014-01-23/system/dirs
96M ./2014-01-23/system
2.9G ./2014-01-23
2.8G ./2014-01-22/accounts
104K ./2014-01-22/system/files
96M ./2014-01-22/system/dirs
96M ./2014-01-22/system
2.9G ./2014-01-22
9.2G .

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

It's acceptable to remove your backup directories provided you no longer require those backups and you have not manually stored additional required data in those directories.

Thank you.

 

[vlallo]

Thank you Michael.

 

[vlallo]

Hello,

Quick question i haven't manually added anything to this directory, is there anything I can do to make sure i'm not deleting something I shouldn't. Which it doesn't appear to be. It's very un nerving to delete files.

 

[cPanelMichael]

I suggest moving the data from /backup to a separate partition at first, then reviewing it again before deleting it. You can browse through and review the files/directories with the "cd" and "ls" commands.

Thank you.

 

[vlallo]

Thank you!