[TriLUG] Disk cleanup

[Justin Johnson]

I have a RHL 7.2 system at home that has a 30GB drive partitioned as
follows:

/ 5 GB
/boot 100MB
/home 2GB
swap 1.5 GB

I want to install Oracle on this box, which in the past I have installed to
/usr/local, only because this is where I learned to do so.
Problem is there isn't enough free space left on /usr/local to install
Oracle 9i, as my / partition only has 1.5 gig free, and Oracle will consume
most of that. This presents me with two questions.

1.) What the h@|| is taking up > #GB on my hard drive? I installed RHL 7.2
and it's updated to the current kernel release from RH. Can I remove the
older kernel packages safely? If so, do I need to do anything beyond
uninstall the package? ( I use gnorpm for most of my dealings with this kind
of stuff) I've already started going through the list of packages and
uninstalling things I know I don't use, as I just want to get rid of as much
crap as possible.

2.) The few Oracle install I 've done in the past where to /usr/local.
That's where the book I had said to do it, so I did. Would there be any
concerns with creating the oracle user's home as /home/oracle and installing
it there (plenty of free space to grow), instead of in /usr/local (no free
space to grow) ?

I basically am in a position where I need free space on a partition that
doesn't have much, and I have another partition that has plenty of free
space, but not where I need it.

TIA