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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:32:02 +0100
From:      zbigniew szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        zbigniew szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var growing too fast
Message-ID:  <476BDC72.5070902@szalbot.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <18283.54789.123386.713890@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <476B587D.9060000@szalbot.homedns.org> <18283.54789.123386.713890@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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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



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