Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by
running apt-get clean


Dale Morris [dlm@well.com] wrote:
> I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is
> a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I
> finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk
> contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200
> for /tmp. I am noticing that /var is now 70% full. Yesterday it was 46% and
> I went in and cleaned out all my big mail files, yet that made little
> difference. Is there something wrong here or is this normal /var behavior?
> 
> Here's what the df command yields:
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3                94667     53227     36552  59% /
> /dev/hda5                94635       638     89110   1% /tmp
> /dev/hda6               283431    187954     80838  70% /var
> /dev/hda7              1922188    764500   1060040  42% /usr
> /dev/hda8              2402992    552172   1728756  24% /home
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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