RE: [cobalt-users] Free up space on /var

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > My disk indicator for my RaQ3i is showing red, apparently
> > because 91% of the /var directory is being used.  How can I
> > best free up space?
> 
> /var is taken up by things that change frequently. Do this...
> 
> cd /var
> du -h --max-depth 1
> 
> This should show you which part of var is using the most space. If I'm
> wrong on something, "man du" will get you help.
> 
> Two likely culprits are the logs (/var/log) and the mail spool files of
> mail waiting to be collected by your users (/var/spool/mail). Check
> those first, and if those aren't the problem du will help you hunt them
> down.
I don't know about RAQ3 directory structures, but on my Qube2 and RAQ2,
/var/spool/mail is s symlink to /home/spool/mail. That is one thing I was
pleased to see Cobalt do, since there's a ton of room in /home, but /var
is kinda cramped for space.

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Linux Registered User #82296
Tue Mar 27 06:15:01 EST 2001
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