erasing i386 and gnome rpms

[jorge ceballos]

Hi,

My server uses Centos 5.11 with plesk 12.0.18
The root partition is being filled up; noticeably after adding alternate PHP versions.

Doing an rpm -qa, came across several i386 rpms which don't belong as my system is x64.
p.e. openssl-devel-0.9.8e-32.el5_11.i386
Can these be deleted safely with the --nodeps option?

what about the i686 such as openssl-0.9.8e-32.el5_11.i686 ?

Now, also noticed the following gnome rpms (I don't use gnome whatsoever), can these be erased too?

gnome-vfs2-2.16.2-12.el5_9
gnome-mount-0.5-3.el5
gnome-vfs2-2.16.2-12.el5_9
gnome-mime-data-2.4.2-3.1
gnome-python2-2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.14.2-7.el5
libgnomecanvas-2.14.0-4.1
bluez-gnome-0.5-5.fc6
gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-extras-2.14.2-7.el5
libgnome-2.16.0-6.el5
gnome-python2-gconf-2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-keyring-0.6.0-1.fc6
gnome-doc-utils-0.8.0-2.fc6
libgnomeui-2.16.0-5.el5
gnome-python2-canvas-2.16.0-1.fc6


Thanks in advance.

 

[abdi]

Hello Jorge,
You could erase them (ie Plesk doesn't require Gnome) but what if you installed a package that required those RPMS as dependencies (& perhaps you don't remember), won't that kill the functionality of that respective package?

 

[jorge ceballos]

Abdi, thanks for the answer; you are right.

Guess it will be better to be safe.

Any suggestion on how to increase root partition?

Thanks again

 

[abdi]

Here is a good howto:
https://help.1and1.com/servers-c376...e-the-size-of-the-logical-volume-a756168.html

But before, its important that you first run a full backup of your server + move the backup files away from it to another server should the disc sectors get messed up.

 

[jorge ceballos]

Abdi, thanks for the link.

Backups are in an extra disk, so I guess that part is covered.
I will give it a try next weekend.

Thanks again.

 

[abdi]

Sure no problem! Let us know if you need further assistance.