<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>If you have mailing lists check for archives and delete them:<br><br>/var/lib/mailman/archives<br><br>Herb<br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Felix Kaegi" <f.kaegi@fairtalk.com><br><b>To: </b>"BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:37:57 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[BlueOnyx:15771] Re: /var partition frequently filling up<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Hi Steve<br><br>Thanks for the hint. <br><br>The main result is:<br>1419152 /var/lib<br>1299684 /var/log</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">In /var/log it is mainly the messages and btmp files that occupy hundreds of megabytes.<br><br>Any further help would be appreciated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steven Howes<br><b>Sent:</b> Dienstag, 12. August 2014 17:34<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:15770] Re: /var partition frequently filling up</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">On 12 Aug 2014, at 16:21, Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>> wrote:</p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">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.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>How best to resolve this on a permanent basis?</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Find out what’s causing it. Look around and see where the space has gone.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Run:</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif"">du --max-depth=1 /var</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Steve</p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br>Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it<br>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx<br></div><br></div></body></html>