solution:Re: root partition full, what files / folders can I delete

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 21:59, robert at redo2oo.ch <robert at redo2oo.ch> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all off you giving me valuable hints.
> And yes, the fail2ban I should have googled myself.
>
> what I did to get rid of that huge fail2ban database:
> - stopped the fail2ban service
> - renamed the database /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3
> - restarted fail2ban
> - deleted the backup
>
> All seems well..

Have you checked that it is not just growing again ready to bite you
at some point in the future?

Colin