Thanks for the advice.
I looked at the files under /root, and found
there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
What is that? Can I delete it?



On 1/18/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:08:46PM -0600, jie gong wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
> > My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
> > partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
> > Where did the space go?
> >
> > Here is some output which may be useful.
> > command: du -hcs /*
> >
> > 3.3M /bin
> > 5.8M /boot
> > 128K /dev
> > 23M /etc
> > 4.0K /fai
> > 893M /home
> > 4.0K /initrd
> > 44M /lib
> > 16K /lost+found
> > 4.0K /media
> > 4.0K /mnt
> > 4.0K /opt
> > 507M /proc
> > 3.8G /root
>
> right here. your /root directory is 3.8G. How did you end up with so
> much crap in /root? /root is the home directory for the root user and
> should generally not be that full. regardless though, /root is part of
> / which is /dev/hda6. You have not mounted /root from another
> partition. So that 3.8G has taken over your / partition.
>
> >
> > Command: df
> >
> > I run df, get the following
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /
>
> you have not put /root on another partition, so it is part of this
> one, which is clearly full.
>
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