From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 15:32:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA5E16A417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from lists.lc-words.com (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD1613C442 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:32:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.szalbot.homedns.org [127.0.0.1]) by lists.lc-words.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0B23F406; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:30:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from lists.lc-words.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (szalbot.homedns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10026) with ESMTP id 77119-09; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:30:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.11.100] (87-205-52-249.adsl.inetia.pl [87.205.52.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.lc-words.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ACD3F405; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:30:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <476BDC72.5070902@szalbot.homedns.org> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:32:02 +0100 From: zbigniew szalbot User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org> <18283.54789.123386.713890@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <18283.54789.123386.713890@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: zbigniew szalbot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var growing too fast X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:32:12 -0000 Hello, Robert Huff pisze: > 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 > Great! Thank you. /var/mysql is the biggest. It kind of strange because I only have maybe 7MB worth of data on mysql database. I guess these all are necesseray files though. I did check on a different machine I have access to, mysql dir is even bigger. Thank you Robert! Zbigniew Szalbot