Skylar: that's more or less what I've been doing, looking for huge things in /. Kenneth: the latest version of kdirstat appears to now be named qdirstat, no kde bits required. it is certainly a handy way to quickly find the disk space sinks. Thanks for the pointer. but I still don't know the proper way to clear out a lot of this stuff. I certainly don't want to hose my system. It is C7, up to date, and it has been running for at least five years with partitions as they are set now: / is 50 gigs. had a popup message this morning telling me that / was nearly full. found it with 2 gigs free. sounds as if something has been slowly eating away at the space. I could use gparted to rearrange things, making / bigger, but as it has been going for five years, it strikes me that it more likely needs a lot of garbage collection to be done. I've manually cleaned up some detritus, it now reports 3.7G free which should hold me for a little while. So, can anyone advise me on what is and what is not safe to whack/delete from the root partition? Thanks! Fred On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 7:16 PM Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > --On Thursday, December 30, 2021 6:20 PM -0500 Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /, > > which is running low on space. I've hit all the low-hanging fruit I can > > find and now I come to things like /var/cache, and I don't know what to > do > > about such. > > Have you run KDirStat to find the disk pigs? I regularly use its Windows > derivative, WinDirStat. > > <http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/> > <https://windirstat.net/> > > I wish there was a web-based version for headless servers without X > libraries. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >