Root directory at 100%

[Clair D. Bittner]

I have run into a roadblock. Root is at 100% and I have removed every file that I can possibly do and have only directories left in there. There are no excessive files to remove. I have to re-do Root in order to allocate more space to the directory. Does anyone have any short cuts or solutions that make it easier to re-do Root????
Any suggestions would be appreciated,

Clair

[Rick Garland]

If you are going to redo the root, ignite is the way.

Before doing so, run the following command:
# cd /
# du . -x -ka | sort -nr | more

This will list the biggest files in ascending order.

[Clair D. Bittner]

I did run that command and I have nothing that I am not currently using large enough to be able to delete. I have been told that Ignite is the way to go and I have to do some reading on that as we never went to it for recovery.

[Rick Garland]

Another option might be to move stuff off to another disk and then create a sym link. Example, move var elsewhere then create a link from the old location that points to the new location.

[Clair D. Bittner]

That makes sense and would decrease root as well and would eliminate the necessity to re-do and re-install after root has been restructured.

[D Block 2 · Accepted solution]

one thing: bring to Single-User mode having only / root mounted.

run: shutdown
and check for anything that might be under your mount points: /var /usr /opt etc.

assuming that all mountable file-systems are unmounted, these mount points (/var) etc, should be clean -- nothing under them.

also, would be a good time to check a list of all file sizes in / root:

cd /
du -sk * | sort -rn

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

In this situation the best way to cleanup root by moving some of the directories elsewhere and create link to that.
regards
SK