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Dealing with Low Disk Space

Linux

du -sh /*

Remove Old Kernels

Paste this ant the CLI then run rmkernel to remove all kernels except your running kernel.

rmkernel () {
        local cur_kernel=$(uname -r|sed 's/-*[a-z]//g'|sed 's/-386//g')
        local kernel_pkg="linux-(image|headers|ubuntu-modules|restricted-modules)"
        local meta_pkg="${kernel_pkg}-(generic|i386|server|common|rt|xen|ec2)"
        sudo aptitude purge $(dpkg -l | egrep $kernel_pkg | egrep -v "${cur_kernel}|${meta_pkg}" | awk '{print $2}')
}

Windows

Empty Recycle Bin for All Users

For Windows 7 or Server 2008 enter this command:

rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin

For Windows XP, Vista, or Server 2003 enter this command:

rd /s c:\recycler

Tools

This is a free tool to help you analyse where your disk space is currently being used:

http://www.mindgems.com/products/Folder-Size/Folder-Size.html

This is a short script that is probably best used as an emergency 'free space now' tool:

@echo off
rem Script to clean up disk space on SBS 2008 servers
rem Downloaded from SBSfaq.com
rem V1.0 - March 28th, 2010
rem Certificate Services Logs
net stop "Active Directory Certificate Services"
del c:\windows\system32\certlog\*.log
del c:\windows\system32\certlog\*.chk
del c:\windows\system32\certlof\*.jrs
net start "Active Directory Certificate Services"
rem IIS Log Files
Del C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\*.log /f /s

On New Systems

If you are building new systems:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977

computing/windows/low_disk_space.1417878568.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/12/06 08:09 by gcooper