1.3G of my /var missing

[Clayton Milos]

> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:27:10AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free 
>>> space
>>> remain.
>>>
>>> However doing a
>>> du -hd 1 /var
>>>
>>> and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, 
>>> so
>>> there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not 
>>> recognize a
>>> problem.
>>
>> Try looking at tunefs(8), particularly the -m flag.  That amount of
>> space is kept for root (the user).
>>
>
> As in most cases the problem was sitting between the chair and the 
> keyboard. I
> simply overlooked the G when I read that /var/log contained 1.3G of data.
>
> I'm sorry for wasting the precious time of those who read or even replied 
> with
> my stupidity.

Sounds like you need to make a few entries in /etc/newsyslog
First thing I do when I add any new apps is give their logs a life cycle.
All too quickly logs become bulky and you find /var holding it's breath.

-Clay