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What happened to all my hard drive space?

Recently I was trying to upgrade using Yum on my Fedora 9 machine and I got an awful message that I did not have enough space to complete the upgrade. What the hell? My / partition has a huge 10GB, how can this be so?

[root@Garth Download]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             9.5G  8.7G  312M  97% /
tmpfs                 722M   80K  722M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4              17G   12G  4.2G  75% /home
/dev/sda1              28G   25G  3.1G  90% /mnt/Winxp

As you can see, my laptop has a 60GB hdd, so I am consistently having this argument with it.

The problem with most command line utilities is that it is difficult to see what you have installed and how much space each has. Then I remembered a little script that I used a few years back that told me what RPM's I had installed and how big each was. Eureka! Just what I need.

So, I had a little fun, did a little search and found the beloved rpmhogs script.

Check this out;

[root@Garth Download]# perl rpmhogs.pl
  246,007,784  java-1.5.0-gcj-javadoc-1.5.0.0-21.fc9.x86_64
  246,902,300  java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-0.13.b09.fc9.x86_64
  231,068,455  openoffice.org-core-2.4.1-17.4.fc9.x86_64
  114,684,216  texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-22.fc9.noarch
   91,189,935  glibc-common-2.8-3.x86_64
   87,927,623  compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-9.x86_64
   84,367,402  git-1.5.5.1-1.fc9.x86_64
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How good is that? I love it. Now I need to uninstall a crap load of stuff I dont use.

And, yes, my Laptop's name is Garth. My media PC is named Cassandra and my wifes laptop is named Wayne. Who can guess my theme?