/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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