How much /var?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 09:37 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> I recently ran out of space on my /var partition, which surprised me,
> especially because I have a separate partition for /var/log.  How much
> room should I expect the rest of /var to take up?

Depends what you put in it...

There will be cache files, databases, mail and print spools, www/ftp
dirs and all manner of other things in /var. Try this:

du -sh /var/*

to get a list of each sub dir with total space taken up, and follow it
down from there looking for things that are "too big" according to your
own usage needs.

Sorry for the vague answer, but there simply isn't a definitive one

alan