[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up, again.

[Wayne Dahl]

Hi guys,

I really hate to ask this again as I had this problem a couple of months
ago and now it's back.  I have no idea what to do about it.  Last time,
I was able to clear out some stuff from / that enabled me to open up
some space, but now I have no idea what else to look for.  I have a 40
Gig drive I have Linux on on this box and I have the / partition set up
as 341.8 Megs of it.  The last time I attempted to do an upgrade of the
kernal, I got an error message saying / needed 15+ Megs of space and I'm
now down to 13.9.  

Someone last time suggested I look (I think) in /etc for files being
installed I don't need.  Trouble is, I don't know what's in there that I
don't actually need.  What should I look for?  Redundant files, old
libraries that I no longer need, etc?  How would I tell what I need and
what I don't?

I realize I may be asking the impossible but I'm not sure what else to
do.  I am enclosing the partition information for you so you'll know how
I have this hard drive split up.  

For background, this box is a dual boot into Win98 and RH 8.0.  It
originally had a 6 Gig drive in it that I've partitioned into vfat (3.8
Gigs for Win98) and the rest as a the boot partition for Linux.  I also
used some other space for some of the other partitions.  So my partition
info is given below...

/dev/hda1  vfat   3.8 GB    /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda2        53.2 MB   /boot
/dev/hda3        509.6 MB  /swap
/dev/hda5        341.8 MB  /
/dev/hda6        1.3 GB    /tmp
/dev/hdc1        2.2 GB    /var
/dev/hdc2        3.8 GB    /opt
/dev/hdc3        2.4 GB    /usr/local
/dev/hdc5        2.4 GB    /usr/src
/dev/hdc6        13.5 GB   /home
/dev/hdc7        13.5 GB   /usr

Incidentally, why is there no /dev/hda4 or /dev/hdc4?  Why does the
system skip hdx4 when setting up partitions?  

Boot I can deal with by deleting old kernals and sources I no longer
need.  But / I have no idea what to do with.

Thanks for your input.

Wayne