what to delete in /usr

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:01:22PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> 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.

/dev/shm is shared memory support (Some versions of X among other things
use that to access it.)

Len Sorensen
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