Re: [cobalt-users] the filesystem is getting very full...

["Shaun Johnston" <shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> A few days ago, someone posted a RAQ question re: the filesystem
> becoming very full suddenly. Our RAQ4 seems to do this too.
>
> After some investigation, we found where the files were building up.
>
> Our solution was to stop the mail services, then go into the
> "/home/spool/mqueue/" directory (where you will see directories like
> "q1" "q2" "q3", etc)... And delete all of the files inside these
> directories, then restart the mail service.
>
> A few weeks later it will fill up again (your server will email you
> again telling you its' getting full), so you'll need to go in and run
> those commands again... So there's probably a way to write a script to
> do it when it becomes full.
>
>
> Now although I've provided a solution, I still have a question - why
> does this directory become full all the time, all of a sudden?

Thanks for the info.  My problem however was that it was the root filesystem
(hda1 or '/') rather than the home filesystem (hda4 or '/home') that was
filling up.

I checked out the RackShack forums (forums.rackshack.net) and there were
several solutions.  The most radical I saw was moving the entire /usr
directory from hda1 to hda4, then symlinking it.  Even though the person who
posted that said they had no problems after doing it, I'm still dubious :-)

The thread is here:

http://forums.rackshack.net/showthread.php?threadid=380

I did however move /usr/java/* to /home/java/* and symlink that, and have
had no problems since.