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Re: partition /var is full



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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small.
> When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't 
> download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin.
> To solve the problem temporarily, I have removed the biggest files in 
> /var/log/.
> How can I solve this problem neatly ?
> Thinks in advance for your reply or for a link which gives me a hint   
> for good solution ?
> 
> "df -h" displays :
> 
> Sys. de fich.         Tail. Occ. Disp. %Occ. Monté sur
> /dev/hda2             464M  139M  302M  32% /
> tmpfs                 253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3             3,2G  1,7G  1,4G  55% /usr
> /dev/hda6              92M   22K   87M   1% /tmp
> /dev/hda7             464M  411M   29M  94% /var
> /dev/hda8             1,9G  530M  1,2G  31% /home
> /dev/fd0              1,4M  745K  679K  53% /floppy
> 
> "du -hs /var"  displays
> 
> 89M	/var  
> 
> 411M != 89M ? 
> 
> -- 
> Gerard
> 
Hi G,
have you though about 'apt-get autoclean' ?
try this:
du -m -s /var/*/* |sort -n
see where the big files are.
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