Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:04:37 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: zbigniew szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var growing too fast Message-ID: <18283.54789.123386.713890@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org>
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zbigniew szalbot writes: > I thought I would ask your advice. I only have a 2 GB /var slice > and space is shrinking fast. > > It may be that something else is eating up available space but I > am not sure how to measure it. Every day about 1% more of > available space is taken. Start by running: du /var | sort -nr | head -n 50 | more This will show you the 50 biggest directories. If you don't understand why they're the size they are ... that's your first step. Robert Huff
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