From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 22:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.actllc.com (mail-1.actllc.com [209.221.160.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3341520F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:36:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from majid@ibroadcast.net) Received: from magic2 ([209.221.145.23]) by mail-1.actllc.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA24098; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:40:33 -0800 Message-ID: <013001bf5feb$95168ea0$1791ddd1@balfourplace.com> From: "Majid Almassari" To: "bunny" , "freeBSD" References: <000e01bf5fea$23a0f400$330782cb@shahriyg> Subject: Re: Help with the df Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:33:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_012C_01BF5FA8.804652A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_012C_01BF5FA8.804652A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Usually you have your logs in /var/ so I would look into cleaning up the /var/log/maillog and other files on a regular basis and/or it could be because of /var/mail where all the mail spools are at. You can run a script that can rotate or clean the files in /var/logs/ and/or you can setup a disk quota in /var/mail to control the size of mail spools usually sysadmins set this up to be about 5-10MB but it might vary depending on the system needs.. Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. System Administrator. iBroadcast, Inc. (206) 223-5540 http://www.ibroadcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: bunny To: freeBSD Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: Help with the df Dear Sir, I am using freebsd for my mail server. My df is showing the following status, please tell me how to control this /var. It is 89%and shoots upto 94%. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0s2a 89215 72772 9306 89% / /dev/sd0s2g 2262478 522837 1558643 25% /home /dev/sd0s2f 893279 627514 194303 76% /usr /dev/sd0s2e 496367 404377 52281 89% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Thanks Regards, Bunny ------=_NextPart_000_012C_01BF5FA8.804652A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Usually you have your logs in /var/ so = I would look=20 into cleaning up the /var/log/maillog and other files on a regular = basis and/or=20 it could be because of /var/mail where all the mail spools are at. You = can run=20 a script  that can rotate or clean the files in /var/logs/ = and/or you=20 can setup a disk quota in /var/mail to control the size of mail = spools=20 usually sysadmins set this up to be about 5-10MB but it might vary = depending on=20 the system needs..
 
Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP.
System Administrator.
iBroadcast, = Inc.
(206) 223-5540
http://www.ibroadcast.net
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 bunny
To: freeBSD
Sent: Saturday, January 15, = 2000 10:22=20 PM
Subject: Help with the df

Dear Sir,
I am using freebsd for my mail = server. My df is=20 showing the following status, please tell me how to control this /var. = It is=20 89%and shoots upto 94%.
 
Filesystem =20 1K-blocks     Used    Avail = Capacity =20 Mounted on
/dev/sd0s2a     = 89215   =20 72772     9306    = 89%   =20 /
/dev/sd0s2g   2262478   522837 =20 1558643    25%   =20 /home
/dev/sd0s2f    893279   = 627514  =20 194303    76%   =20 /usr
/dev/sd0s2e    496367  =20 404377    52281    89%    = = /var
procfs          = ;   =20 4       =20 4        0  =20 100%    = /proc     
 
Thanks
 
Regards,
Bunny
  =20
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