From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 7 5:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [192.215.234.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CCB737B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19438 invoked by uid 1078); 7 Jan 2001 13:41:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 2001 13:41:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:41:46 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: B Cc: Subject: Re: /var drive space problem In-Reply-To: <001001c078ac$67228f00$0100a8c0@loqtis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, B wrote: > i have a recently upgraded FreeBSD 4.2 from 4.1...and my problem is that im runing out of space on the /var partition (i recieve alot of system mail in that partition which i have to delete daily to keep it at 99%) ..im not sure what i can delete to make room...although if i go to > /var/tmp theres a dir thats called "temproot" ..i think it was from when i CVS the new 4.2 src..and installed....can i delete this dir??? this is the dir structure under /var > > account/ crash/ games/ msgs/ rwho/ yp/ > at/ cron/ log/ preserve/ spool/ > backups/ db/ mail/ run/ tmp/ > > if anyone has any suggestions.... they would be greatly appreciated..... Do this: cd /var du -s * This should give you an idea of which directories are consuming the space and let you prune accordingly. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message