Buzz27 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 I have just recovered my system after running out of space on my root partition. This resulted in a .DCOPserver KDE - connection list failure, after I tried to reboot the box with ctl+alt+backspace. Once I got the shell/ terminal I logged in as root and ran startx. Even though this enabled me to recover some space on the root partition, I still couldn't get KDE to login after rebooting. From a little research and error analysis I ran the following to change ICE-unix permissions and move the offending items giving the .DCOPserver error prompt chmod 777 .ICE-unix cd /home/user/.kde ls -la mv socket-localhost socket-localhostbak mv tmp-localhost tmp-localhostbak reboot Having moved/ renamed my /user/.kde/ sockets and rebooting I found selecting KDE as the session gave me a new error .ICEauthority access failure I ran cd /home/user ls -la chmod 777 .ICEauthority I have now got my KDE GUI running again but still have very little space left on my root partition which is currently df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 7.7G 7.2G 187M 98% / /dev/sda8 111G 87G 24G 79% /home /dev/sdc2 459G 429G 5.8G 99% /mnt/Lacie_TB1 /dev/sdc5 459G 430G 6.0G 99% /mnt/Lacie_TB2 /dev/sdb1 689G 649G 5.0G 100% /mnt/SR1 /dev/sdb2 687G 651G 2.1G 100% /mnt/SR2 This may be due to having multiple kernels installed which I have accumulated when updating. I like to keep one as a backup, but am keen to remove the others ( to gain some space on root). uname -a Linux NS03 2.6.22.19-server-2mdv #1 SMP Mon May 5 21:13:00 EDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GNU/Linux rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.22.19-2mdv2008.0 kernel-server-devel-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.22.19-2mdv2008.0 kernel-server-devel-latest-2.6.22.19-2mdv2008.0 kernel-server-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 kernel-server-latest-2.6.22.19-2mdv2008.0 kernel-desktop-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 kernel-server-devel-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 kernel-server-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 Any suggestions/ recommendations on how to gain back some space on this partition would be welcome! as I feel nearly 8G should be plenty for the operating sytem to manage on. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 (edited) there is a great utility right in konqueror called filesize view (from the view menu or might also be on one of the toolbars), it allows you to see the size of all files and directories be sure to not select /media and /mnt though when you want to find out the size of / because it will add all mount points to / ,so  select all directories in / except for /media /mnt (and maybe /proc neither) and see where the junk is... btw: kernels are not very big, about 20mb for the kernel and 10 mb for the kernel headers Edited August 16, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz27 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 I have used this in the past, and am currently looking for the build up of junk/ left behind files. So far I have found 1.4gb of files left when a program ran out of space and crashed leaving the files in a hidden directory. Is there any way to search for all temporary files including ones left after a make/ compile which are no longer req'd? or a global junk cleaning utility? similar to System mechanic, CCleaner ,Your uninstaller etc I have already looked in the /tmp directories and removed any I don't need there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 there is a program in the repository for that but I forgot its name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Just purge your logfiles- I think there's such an option in MCC. This should save several hundreds of MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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