/var is lack of space!!

[he ccj]

Thanks all of you,with your instruction,i found that it's
/var/spool/clientmqueue use almost all of my disk space!!And i delete
this directory,every thing is ok!

But which program produce those rubish?and how can i stop that program?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:12:50 -0600, John <john at starfire.mn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:50:38AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> >
> > John writes:
> >
> > >  This is a good way to find out "where" the storage is being used:
> > >  cd /var ; du -s * | sort -nr | more
> > >  That will give you a list, sorted from most storage to least, of
> > >  each directory (or file) at the /var level.  You can then choose
> > >  to descend into one of those, and run the command again, to drill
> > >  deeper.
> >
> >       Technical notes:
> >       1) given you're already at /var, the "*" is superfluous.
> 
> No, it's not your technical notes are WRONG, you've not understood
> my point.  With the "-s" option and not the *, you'd only get the
> total usage for the filesystem, and he already knows that from the
> "df".
> 
> >       2) if you omit the -s, you get the "drilling down" for free:
> 
> You've entirely missed my point.  Read on...
> 
> > 47100   ./db
> > 40126   ./db/pkg
> > 13160   ./log
> > 10738   ./log/samba
> 
> I find this hard to read, you've done a great job of illustrating my point.
> When looking at this, you need to remember that the ./db 47100 contains
> the ./db/pkg 40126 - you can't add up that column of numbers to see what
> part of the total filesystem is in use.
> 
> I'm not saying my way is the only way, but at least I'm not telling
> you your way is wrong without understanding it.  I find my method
> useful, so I shared it - if he doesn't want to use it, he doesn't have to.
> --
> 
> John Lind
> john at starfire.MN.ORG
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>