Thread: Is there no easy way to know what is consuming root?
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-03-19 , 11:31
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Originally Posted by munkiii View Post
My problem now is that the total of those sizes add up to 315820. That converts to just under 308mb. The rootfs file size is only reported as 227.9mb when i do a "df -h" in xterminal.

Also, there only looks like 2 things in that list that i could remove, and thats the PokerTH's which would give me back around 13.5mb. Although, when i installed PokerTH, my rootfs didn't go down by anywhere near 13.5mb.

Is this script showing the rootfs and some other place?
No, the problem is that rootfs is a compressed filesystem, so it's very difficult to correlate the file sizes with the space used. The PokerTH data files probably compress very well, so although there's 9M of data it takes up far less space on rootfs.

As you say, there's not a lot you can easily remove there. PokerTH seems to be the worst space hog - it's also pulling in libicu40 which takes up another 17M.