/var is getting full

[Karl F. Larsen]

Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists) wrote:
> On Sat, October 10, 2009 11:10, Richard Gliebe wrote:
>> On 10/10/09 10:50 AM Graham Watkins wrote:
>>> Didar Hossain wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Graham Watkins
>>>> <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> The other day when installing some updates, I got a warning message
>>>>> saying that /var was too full.
>>>>>
>>>>> I checked using df and found it was 94% used.  (The partition is
>>>>> 4.2Gb.)  This certainly seems a lot.  My 9.04 installation is just
>>>>> over
>>>>> a month old so I'm surprised it's got full so quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the best (safest) way of slimming it down?
>>>>>
>>>> I wonder if "apt-get clean" help?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Didar
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.  Been there, done that. Still 94% used though.
>> whats about a reboot, maybe some locked Inodes become free.
> 
> Oh come on people, you're just doing shotgun debugging without knowing
> what is eating his disk space. It is all with good intentions but you're
> not helping him this way.
> 
> If someone is saying that a high-level directory like /var is getting
> full, your immediate response should be to ask more detail. du (disk
> usage) is the tool he needs. ncdu is also good, or some GUI program that
> does the same.
> 
	The even worst problem is that the guy with the problem has 
not yet told anyone if he found the problem!

73 Karl


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