Comments on: How to reduce or free space in /usr partition http://www.ezlinuxadmin.com/2010/01/reduce-free-space-usr-partition/ Making Linux Easier Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:06:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Richards http://www.ezlinuxadmin.com/2010/01/reduce-free-space-usr-partition/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Jeff Richards Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:43:39 +0000 http://www.ezlinuxadmin.com/?p=368#comment-778 Just as a heads up you indicated that restarting httpd might save some space in my case, it appeared that there was 7.0G that was used on /usr. After restarting httpd and having a heart stopping moment as the process failed to start through whm. (Thank you "/etc/init.d/httpd start" for bringing the process back up) at first didn't want to come back up. A second try brought the service back up and then checking the disk usage via df indicated that there was only 3.5 G being used. So restarting httpd can definitely free a lot of space. One of the key tips offs for me was that df and adding up the du entries from du entries significantly disagreed. Just as a heads up you indicated that restarting httpd might save some space in my case, it appeared that there was 7.0G that was used on /usr.

After restarting httpd and having a heart stopping moment as the process failed to start through whm. (Thank you “/etc/init.d/httpd start” for bringing the process back up) at first didn’t want to come back up. A second try brought the service back up and then checking the disk usage via df indicated that there was only 3.5 G being used.

So restarting httpd can definitely free a lot of space. One of the key tips offs for me was that df and adding up the du entries from du entries significantly disagreed.

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