[Novalug] yum problem

[Kevin Dwyer]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:52:47PM -0700, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> 
> >>	What has happened? What do I do about it?
> >
> >More useful would be: df -h /var/cache/yum/updates/packages
> >
> >Whichever partition contains /var is probably full.
> 
> 	Aaarrgghhh! Got it in one :
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# df -h /var/cache/yum/updates/packages
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb2              20G   19G   72M 100% /
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> 	So now what? Can I just rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* ??

Well that command didn't reveal what is using the space, only that it's
all gone on that partition.  Is /home also on the /dev/sdb2 partition?
Have you downloaded anything gihugic lately?  If not, you can start to
narrow the problem by strategic use of the `du' command.  By typing,
say, 'du -hs /home', you'll know how big /home is.  Replace /home with
other directories on that partition and then you can dig deeper to find
the problem.

There are also some nice GUI tools that can provide a quick way to dive
into disk space usage (filelight is my favorite) but I haven't
recommended trying them since you're out of space, and likely don't have
them installed; making it impossible to play.

-kpd