[BlueOnyx:15775] Re: /var partition frequently filling up

[Felix Kaegi]

Hi Gustavo

Thanks for the tips. I changed the rotate length and activated the compression. 

Would you know where I find the individual settings for the log files ‘messages’ and ‘btmp’?

Best wishes
Felix




 

From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Gustavo Silva
Sent: Dienstag, 12. August 2014 19:09
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:15774] Re: /var partition frequently filling up

 

Usually in my case, logs end up filling up the /var partition after a year or so. Check out the /etc/logrotate.conf and individual /etc/logrotate.d/ settings and also make sure compress is enabled. That should lower the usage. Hope this helps.

 

Gustavo

 

2014-08-12 17:37 GMT+01:00 Felix Kaegi <f.kaegi at fairtalk.com>:

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