clean up /root partition - Help!

[sagelike]

My / partition has been filling up and I have a few questions related to it. It was up to 78% full and I'm running plesk 8.6.

1. Will it slow down the server when /root fills up?
2. I've removed and changed the directory for the Plesk updater which freed some space. There's also a /swsoft directory and within that there's a PSA_8.3.0 and SSO_2.0 and some files like plesk.inf3 in it. Can I safely remove or move any or all of these files elsewhere?
3. What other files or directories can I safely remove?

I don't want to resize the partition because frankly that sounds dangerous but maybe I'm just being a wuss. Anyone have any experience resizing / or have some wisdom to pass along?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
G

 

[breun]

1. Will it slow down the server when /root fills up?

100% full partitions generally can cause the weirdest problems, so by all means try to avoid partitions filling up completely.

2. I've removed and changed the directory for the Plesk updater which freed some space. There's also a /swsoft directory and within that there's a PSA_8.3.0 and SSO_2.0 and some files like plesk.inf3 in it. Can I safely remove or move any or all of these files elsewhere?

You can delete those. The autoinstaller/Plesk Updater can always download the files it needs.