Re: regards the /
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:24:37 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón:
>> The above experience I posted it happened on a VM I have to run testing
>> for well... "testing" purposes. I wanted to try something (don't
>> remember exactly what, either "hibernation" or "suspension") and
>> something went wrong so one of the logs was being flooded with errors.
>> The experiment (suspension or hibernation) did not succeed and after a
>> hard reset, once a I logged I received a message popup stating that
>> fact, then issued "df - h" to check, went to /var/log and saw the big
>> file. I deleted and all were happy again.
>
> /var is used for other stuff except logs which might be relevant to
> important operations on the machine, so when you want to drive it to the
> maximum, I suggest separating /var/log as well. And possibly /tmp.
(...)
I usually haven't had any problem with /var/log and when I had such
problem then what worried me is what happened to make /var/log increased
its size.
This is from my VM:
root@debian:~# du -hs /var/log
5,3M /var/log
But I may be experiencing another size problem elsewhere:
root@debian:~# du -hs /var
988M /var
So I should make a little clean. Let's see what is reducing my /var
partition:
root@debian:~# du -h /var | sort -hr
988M /var
677M /var/cache
655M /var/cache/apt
625M /var/cache/apt/archives
298M /var/lib
117M /var/lib/apt-xapian-index
116M /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index.1
63M /var/lib/dpkg
56M /var/lib/dpkg/info
56M /var/lib/apt/lists
56M /var/lib/apt
42M /var/lib/gconf/defaults
42M /var/lib/gconf
(...)
Ah, wow... apt archives. Let's clean them:
root@debian:~# apt-get clean
root@debian:~# du -h /var | sort -hr
364M /var
298M /var/lib
117M /var/lib/apt-xapian-index
116M /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index.1
63M /var/lib/dpkg
56M /var/lib/dpkg/info
56M /var/lib/apt/lists
56M /var/lib/apt
53M /var/cache
42M /var/lib/gconf/defaults
42M /var/lib/gconf
(...)
Much better :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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