On Thursday 22 September 2011 14:14:13 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2011 10:39 AM, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var > > 2.9G /var > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log > > 320M /var/log > > This needs to be addressed. I'd say something's wrong if you have 320MB > of log files on a workstation. Find the big one(s) and tell us what > they are. One of your daemons is likely being too chatty with a log > file, blasting it before each logrotate, or logrotate isn't working > properly.
Tux:/var/log# du -h | sort -n 1.4M ./apache2 4.0K ./news 4.0K ./ntpstats 8.0K ./exim4 12K ./fsck 48K ./apt 88K ./cups 144K ./clamav 312K ./installer/cdebconf 330M . 852K ./installer Tux:/var/log# I haven't even got exim4 installed. I now routinely install nullmailer instead. (I install nullmailer and nullmailer obligingly kicks Exim4 out.) So I assume I can delete ./exim4? And I am not using apache, so I assume that that can go? lisi@Tux:/var/log$ aptitude why apache2 i kde Depends kdepim (>= 4:3.5.5) i A kdepim Depends kdepim-wizards (>= 4:3.5.9-5) i A kdepim-wizards Suggests egroupware p egroupware Depends egroupware-core p egroupware-core Depends apache2 lisi@Tux:/var/log$ > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache > > 2.3G /var/cache > > This is probably where your web browser is storing its cached files. Go > into browser options and clear the cache. May take a while. Tell us > how much space this frees up. Tux:/var/log# du -s -h /var/cache 37M /var/cache Tux:/var/log# [snip] > None of this adds up to 30GB. You've got a file(s) somewhere else in a > subdir of / that's taking up tons of space. [snip] Yes, 22G in /media that ought not to have been there!! And is no longer there. But I'm all for trying to free up more space. a) it is a good learning exercise b) it'll give me some space back and I might even risk shrinking the partition back to its original size or even smaller - having, of course, made a proper backup first - and c) it's fun. So I shall continue to work through all the suggestions that people have gone to the trouble of making. :-) Thanks again, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109221702.56274.lisi.re...@gmail.com
