Freeing up space dev/sda5

vlallo

• January 30, 2014 14:10

Hi I'm looking to free up some space on dev/sda5 which appears to be mounted on ./ directory on my linux centos 6 configuration as you can see below. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 9.9G 9.7G 0 100% / tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 99M 56M 38M 60% /boot /dev/sda8 332G 22G 294G 7% /home /dev/sda7 1008M 34M 924M 4% /tmp /dev/sda3 15G 3.9G 11G 28% /usr /dev/sda2 99G 3.9G 90G 5% /var Through my search it appears that my cpanel backups were going into the above directory i have since changed it to point somewhere else. My question is will it be safe to delete the below files from /backup directory without harming my server? Thank you in advanced to whomever can help me. cd / cd ./backup du -h 1.3G ./2014-01-24/accounts 104K ./2014-01-24/system/files 96M ./2014-01-24/system/dirs 96M ./2014-01-24/system 1.3G ./2014-01-24 4.0K ./2014-01-20/accounts 104K ./2014-01-20/system/files 11M ./2014-01-20/system/dirs 11M ./2014-01-20/system 11M ./2014-01-20 2.0G ./2014-01-21/accounts 104K ./2014-01-21/system/files 96M ./2014-01-21/system/dirs 96M ./2014-01-21/system 2.1G ./2014-01-21 2.8G ./2014-01-23/accounts 104K ./2014-01-23/system/files 96M ./2014-01-23/system/dirs 96M ./2014-01-23/system 2.9G ./2014-01-23 2.8G ./2014-01-22/accounts 104K ./2014-01-22/system/files 96M ./2014-01-22/system/dirs 96M ./2014-01-22/system 2.9G ./2014-01-22 9.2G .

• 

  cPanelMichael

  • January 30, 2014 19:13

  Hello :) It's acceptable to remove your backup directories provided you no longer require those backups and you have not manually stored additional required data in those directories. Thank you.

  0
• 

  vlallo

  • January 30, 2014 19:22

  Thank you Michael.

  0
• 

  vlallo

  • January 30, 2014 19:32

  Hello, Quick question i haven't manually added anything to this directory, is there anything I can do to make sure i'm not deleting something I shouldn't. Which it doesn't appear to be. It's very un nerving to delete files. :)

  0
• 

  cPanelMichael

  • January 30, 2014 19:55

  I suggest moving the data from /backup to a separate partition at first, then reviewing it again before deleting it. You can browse through and review the files/directories with the "cd" and "ls" commands. Thank you.

  0
• 

  vlallo

  • January 30, 2014 20:02

  Thank you!

  0

Please sign in to leave a comment.