How to clean up a Linux system to free up disk space? What are some generic ways to free up lots of storage space without deleting personal files? I’m doing a distro upgrade (Debian11->12) and it needs lots of disk space on the root partition / which doesn’t have a large size and I’d like …
What is the difference between yay -Sc and yay -Scc? I have seen seen people online use yay -Sc, but I have also seen people use yay -Scc What is the difference? There is a man page segment for yay -Sc: -Sc Yay will also clean cached AUR package and any untracked Files in the …
How to clean "/dev/mapper/rootvg-root_lv" after YUM? I run Yum update on CentOS and suddenly i got disk space hike on /dev/mapper/rootvg-root_lv [intor@alp-pp03 ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 16G 1.6G 15G 11% /run tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% …
Completely remove remains of sysvinit As opposed to people who want to get rid of systemd, I want to completely and safely remove sysvinit. I’ve been using Debian since Debian 7.0 (Wheezy). Currently I’m using Debian 9.0 (Stretch). During one of the system upgrades there was move from sysvinit to systemd. systemd works fine for …
How to tidy up the .keywords file on a gentoo system? One can select testing packages on a gentoo stable system by adding a line with the following syntax to keywords list: cat /etc/portage/package.keywords =dev-python/ipython-0.13.2 ~amd64 # and many lines later =dev-python/ipython-0.14.1 ~amd64 # and many lines later >=dev-python/ipython-0.13.4 ~amd64 This file will grow within …
Can I remove files in /var/log/journal and /var/cache/abrt-di/usr? I use Fedora and these directories contains a large amount of files, I wonder whether I can delete them? The system is running low on space. Asked By: hgajshb || Source journal logs Yes you can delete everything inside of /var/log/journal/* but do not delete the directory …
