what to delete in /usr

Sat Feb 4 23:07:05 UTC 2006

Howard Gibson writes: 

> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:38:34 -0500
> caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote: 
> 
>> Sometimes, now, when I open OpenOffice it hangs my business production 
>> computer. I checked for any partition that may be full. I found this:  
>> 
>> [chris at a800 chris]$ df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda1              1004024    254928    698092  27% /
>> /dev/hda3              2016044   1468792    444840  77% /home
>> none                    127696         0    127696   0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/hda2              2949060   2698768    100488  97% /usr
>> [chris at a800 chris]$ 
> 
> Chris, 
> 
>    I believe /dev/shm is your swap partition.  When that gets full, you are toast.

But it's completely empty. 0% is being used... 

>    You need more RAM.

Why? 

>    Don't worry about /usr.

Well, something's slowing my system -- and I've found in the past when 
partitions get full and I free space in them then the machine runs better. 
Surely a 97% full partition is something to worry about -- no? 

Chris 

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