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[LUG] Root room part 2

 

A little while ago I asked a quesion about the room left on my root
partition and received some help. I have done some further research
since. Unfortunately that has left me more confused than before.

To recap, here is the output from df

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted
/dev/sda1             5.8G  4.5G  1.1G  82% /
/dev/sda6             140G  5.0G  135G   4% /home
[neil@localhost ~]$

As you can see, root is getting a bit full.

The partitions were set up for me when I installed Mandriva2006. I let
the program do it since I do not understand much about what I should be
doing with partitions.

I have always assumed that root would remain about the same size that
it started at and that any increase in disk usage would appear only
the sda6 partition, which has lots of space. Is this the case?

I work in my home directory of course (/home/neil). In May I bought a
digital camera so there are now lots of photos in /home/neil/photos.
But I suppose that all that increase in usage will be on sda6.

I have never downloaded any graphics, videos, films or music from the
internet. I have installed a few programs but they are not very big.

Even so, over the last few weeks the disk usage on root has increased
from about 79% to the current 82%. It seems to have steadied down at
the moment, but I feel that I am liable to run out of space in the root
partition long before I have filled up anywhere near the free 135Gb on
sda6.

What causes the root partition to increase in size?

Why didn't the installation program make root much bigger if necessary,
say 30 or 40Gb? There is plenty of room on the disk.

Should I be concerned about this, or am I completely misunderstanding
how it all works?

I suggest that any helpful answers to this would be useful to many
other members of the lug also.

TIA

Neil Winchurst

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