/ 100% Used! How to fix?

[lpanebr]

I have a Hardy 8.04.2 installed with partitions set manually and now it looks like I am having some problem because I get a permanent overflow /tmp partition mounted even after reboot.

I guess that when I set the partitions I did not include a /tmp partition and also did not leave enough space on the / partition...

How do I fix this?

- sda is a 250GB drive where ubuntu was installed (it has enough spare space on /cubo partition)
- sdb is a 500GB drive installed later on for backup purposes only

Below is the output of df -h


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 28G 28G 0 100% /
varrun 950M 100K 950M 1% /var/run
varlock 950M 0 950M 0% /var/lock
udev 950M 48K 950M 1% /dev
devshm 950M 0 950M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 950M 39M 912M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/sda6 194G 1.3G 183G 1% /cubo
/dev/sda5 4.7G 154M 4.3G 4% /home
/dev/sdb1 463G 220G 220G 50% /media/backup
overflow 1.0M 4.0K 1020K 1% /tmp


Thanks in advance,

Luciano

[ptn107]

Pop in the live CD and boot to the live desktop. Open up System -> Administration -> Gparted and drag to resize your partitions and click apply. Resizing can take a matter of hours.

[audiomick]

Backup first!!!
I had a problem recently where I had to resize / because it was full.
/home was a separate partiton, which I shrunk, and gave the freed up space to /. I subsequently did a fresh install to 9.10 ( the machine had 8.04 on it) , using the resized existing /home partition. Now the "places" menu does weird stuff. I don't know what the problem is. I posted it, but got no reply.

[lpanebr]

Thanks for the fast reply!

Should I also create a /tmp partition??

Luciano

[Simian Man]

28 gigs is rather a lot for /. I generally use around 5-10 gigs at the most. Maybe you can just try uninstalling some applications that you don't use.

[oldfred]

You may want to check where you space is going:

#check for large files:
sudo du -h --max-depth=1 / | grep '[0-9]G\>' # folders larger than 1GB
sudo find / -name '*' -size +1G # files larger than 1GB
gksudo nautilus /root/.local/share/Trash/files # Be sure to enable viewing of hidden files.

and you may want to do some housekeeping:

HouseKeeping:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
# removes .deb
sudo apt-get autoclean

I think Autoclean just cleans up files you don't need, while autoremove deletes unneded files..
Autoclean cleans up the downloaded archives (.gz or .tar) files used to install things. Autoremove cleans libraries that are no longer needed.
you can run any "apt-get" command predeccesed by the "-s" (simulate) switch