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Date:      Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:19:28 +0100
From:      Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var Full
Message-ID:  <420778F0.6040300@locolomo.org>
In-Reply-To: <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
References:  <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>

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Warren wrote:
> im trying to get cacti working, but since im using a small P2 300 machine with 
> a small hdd my /var has suddenly become full and im wodering what is safe and 
> not safe so to speak to del in the /var dir .. the following are the dir's i 
> have.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel     512 Feb 24  2004 account
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel     512 Aug  8  2004 at
> drwxr-x---   2 root    wheel     512 Feb  5 03:01 backups
> drwxr-x---   2 root    wheel     512 Aug  8  2004 crash
> drwxr-x---   3 root    wheel     512 Aug  8  2004 cron
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root    wheel     512 Feb  6 20:51 db
> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel     512 Feb 24  2004 empty
> drwx------   2 root    wheel     512 Feb 24  2004 heimdal
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel     512 Feb  7 03:09 log
> drwxrwxr-x   3 root    mail      512 Feb  4 21:41 mail
> drwxr-xr-x   2 daemon  wheel     512 Aug  8  2004 msgs
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root    wheel     512 Oct  3 22:26 named
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel     512 Feb 24  2004 preserve
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root    wheel     512 Feb  5 12:15 run
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root    daemon    512 Feb 24  2004 rwho
> drwx--x---   4 root    uucp      512 Jan 21 22:40 smtpd
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root    wheel     512 Aug  8  2004 spool
> drwxrwxrwt   7 root    wheel     512 Feb  6 19:52 

Although you have now found your solution, I'd recommend for such a 
question to submit the output of 'du -d1' instead - this will show which 
directories are using up the space.

Cheers, Erik


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