/var is lack of space!!

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, heccj wrote:

> 
> My box has Apahce,PureFtp,MySql services, it's hardware:128M memory,
> i386 FSB 800Mhz,18G SCSI disk,FreeBSD 5.3.It's slice:
> /	256M
> /swap	256M
> /tmp	256M
> /var	300M
> /usr	others
> After installation,the useage is about 20%.But after few days,
> it increases 50%,so i moved the http and ftp logs,mysql data to another
> slice,but after several days it increases to 70%,now almost 90%.Perhaps
> my box will crash serveral days.I checked the /var/log,it only use about
> 20M,/var/tmp only 100k.So who and where used the space?How should I do?

Hi,

run du on /var and find out what log exactly is filling up your directory.
If you cannot find anything notable maybe the "/var" slice was not umounted
properly so try to run fsck on it.

Oliver
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