making space in root directory

[pondo]

I need to install some patches on my Solaris 2.7 box and it's required that I have at least 4MB of H/D space in '/'. I only have a fraction of that left, like 1MB - how does one go about making space on the root directory? Are there any unnecessary files that could be deleted?

 

[marrow]

Look for "core" files and delete them
find / -name core -exec rm { } \;

and files under /tmp,
/tmp is cleared down after a reboot.

 

[KenCunningham]

If /var is part of your root directory (ie doesn't appear in a df -k display), search this for logs files which can be cleared down, such as /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/wtmpx, as well as files in /var/log.

Hope this helps - have a good weekend!

 

[bluedevils]

du -kad|sort -rn|more
execute while in the root directory. This will give you a list of your biggest files on that mount.

BTW how big is that mount?