: Delete Perl install files? I have a VPS that is managed and am mysteriously running out of space, I think I found a few files I can delete. So just double checking it's ok to delete the

@Phylliss660

Yes, it is safe to delete installer files in almost all cases. The larger issue is the disk running out of space, and the most likely culprit is log files. Take a look in /var/log first. Some applications log to other places, such as your home directory (~) or the home directory of the account they run as, and /var/spool.

A few commands will help you narrow it down. You can check overall disk usage with df -h. You can see the space consumed by all files in a directory with du or ls -lS. If you have the find command, you can actually search by size:

find / -type f -size +100M


will search the entire filesystem for files larger than 100 MB (careful, this may take a long time).

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