Re: Problem with /var
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var
> >
> > root@debian:/var# du -sh*
> >
> > du: invalid option -- '*'
>
> Missing space between 'h' and '*' so the '*' was treated as an option,
> which is invalid. The '*' is unnecessary anyway.
It's totally necessary.
root@hobbit:/var# du -sh
2.1G .
root@hobbit:/var# du -sh *
4.0M backups
124M cache
40K games
209M lib
4.0K local
0 lock
1.8G log
8.0K mail
4.0K opt
2.3M qmail
0 run
3.6M spool
32K tmp
In my case, most of the space is in the "log" subdirectory. So, if I
felt a need to prune stuff on this system, I would cd into log next,
and repeat the process, until I found something I felt it was safe to
truncate or remove.
(Removing log files is often ineffective, because they're kept open
by whatever's writing to them; truncating them works, though.)
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