[BlueOnyx:15772] Re: /var partition frequently filling up

[Herb Rubin]

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From: "Felix Kaegi" <f.kaegi at fairtalk.com> 
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:37:57 AM 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:15771] Re: /var partition frequently filling up 



Hi Steve 

Thanks for the hint. 

The main result is: 
1419152 /var/lib 
1299684 /var/log 

In /var/log it is mainly the messages and btmp files that occupy hundreds of megabytes. 

Any further help would be appreciated. 




From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Steven Howes 
Sent: Dienstag, 12. August 2014 17:34 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:15770] Re: /var partition frequently filling up 

On 12 Aug 2014, at 16:21, Felix Kaegi < f.kaegi at fairtalk.com > wrote: 





The /var partition on our SL/BlueOnyx server is frequently filling up. The partition has 4GB of disk space and BO reports a 96% disk usage and refuses to do YUM updates and even terminates the mail server. 

How best to resolve this on a permanent basis? 




Find out what’s causing it. Look around and see where the space has gone. 



Run: 



du --max-depth=1 /var 



And see where it’s all used. You can remove the /var of the end and CD into directories to see where it’s gone, working down through layers until you find it. 



Steve 
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