var out of space

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sun Dec 17 11:25:29 PST 2006


illoai at gmail.com writes:

>  More to the point, you might want to find out what is
>  filling your /var as that is quite a lot of space being used
>  if you are not running a mailserver.
>  du -d1 -h /var (as root) should give you some clues.

	Allow me to suggest instead:

	du /var | sort -nr | head -n 25

	Run daily (or even weekly), you can become familiar with what's
using space and have a chance to notice when things change.


				Robert Huff


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