Fwd: /var Full

[Ben Dover]

You might want to try doing a  cd /var and then try the command du -h
which will show how much space each directory is using thus showing
what is eating up your space.  Compare this to df -h and if the
numbers dont hash out a process is keeping disk space.  To find out
which process could be doing that you can install lsof from
/usr/ports/sysutils/lsof   In my case it was as easy as killing apache
and restarting it and I cleared up hundreds of MB of space.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Warren <shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:24:41 +1000
Subject: Re: /var Full
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:19 am, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Warren wrote:
> > im trying to get cacti working, but since im using a small P2 300 machine
> > with a small hdd my /var has suddenly become full and im wodering what is
> > safe and not safe so to speak to del in the /var dir
>
> Although you have now found your solution, I'd recommend for such a
> question to submit the output of 'du -d1' instead - this will show which
> directories are using up the space.
>
> Cheers, Erik

enterprise# du -d1 /var
2       /var/.snap
2       /var/account
6       /var/at
16      /var/backups
4       /var/crash
8       /var/cron
32946   /var/db
2       /var/empty
2       /var/heimdal
2       /var/log
4       /var/mail
4       /var/msgs
2       /var/preserve
40      /var/run
2       /var/rwho
185556  /var/spool
5376    /var/tmp
20      /var/yp
26      /var/named
28      /var/smtpd
224050  /var

--
Yours Sincerely
Shinjii
http://www.shinji.nq.nu
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