Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:59:56 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Rob <rob@robhulme.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var full Message-ID: <3A7A932C.3D434684@i-clue.de> References: <LPBBLIHFHEKDFLJEBFJGOEHACGAA.rob@robhulme.com>
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Rob schrieb: > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to BSD - I recently got this in my daily report: > > > pid 5099 (mail.local), uid 0 on /var: file system full > > [snip] > > I went in and deleted all the mail I had in my mail box and I was left with > this: > > www# df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 49583 30925 14692 68% / > /dev/ad0s1f 28526055 3832007 22411964 15% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19815 16321 1909 90% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Can I resize /var, or what solution do I need to use to get more space? First look which directory in there eats your var space: # cd /var # du -k . | sort -n [lots of output deleted] 17568 ./db/mysql 23823 ./db 24027 ./log 50112 . Ummm, there's a lot of logs today... clean up there. Remember: log files are open, just rm'ing them does not help: cat /dev/null > big.logfile makes them empty again. N.B: Never, ever, clean up /var/db/pkg: this is where FreeBSD manages information about installed packages. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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