/var is getting full

Graham Watkins shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com
Sat Oct 10 09:42:46 UTC 2009


Didar Hossain wrote:
> Time to check for the largest disk eating directories -
>
> sudo du -sh /var/*
>
> That should tell you where to start looking for.
>
> HTH,
> Didar
>
>   
Good call.  This gives me the following output.

3.3G    /var/backup
4.3M    /var/backups
36M    /var/cache
4.0K    /var/crash
44K    /var/games
251M    /var/lib
4.0K    /var/local
0    /var/lock
11M    /var/log
16K    /var/lost+found
4.0K    /var/mail
4.0K    /var/opt
116K    /var/run
288K    /var/spool
2.5M    /var/tmp

/var/backup seems to be taking up most of the space.  It contains:

2009-09-26_10.27.20.524996.graham-desktop.ful

This, I think, is an sbackup file.  I have no idea what it is doing 
there as it isn't where backup files are supposed to be saved.  As I am 
now making other arrangements for backups,  I think I can safely delete 
it.  Unless anybody out there can think of a good reason why I 
shouldn't, I shall move it elsewhere and see what happens.  If nothing 
happens, I shall delete it.

Thanks for all the replies.

Cheers,

Graham









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