Clean up / filesystem

[Caleb Stein]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

>
> Caleb Stein writes:
>
>>  I'm constantly getting the message, ":/ write failed, filesystem
>>  is full", so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
>>  108%.  What files can I delete to free some space?
>
> 	Start by checking the contents of /tmp.
> 	Any *.core in /root you don't recognize is suspect.
> 	After that?  Try:
>
> 	du -x / | sort -n -r | head -n 40
>
> 	Look in those directories.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>
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So is it safe to do "rm -rf /tmp/*"?