Thanks for the info I only had 5Mb Left so I re-booted the machine, remember I deleted all the files. When it came back up there was 400Mb available on the partition. It has now been going for about 1.5 hours and about 10Mb has disappeared again. This could be due to the replacement of logs I previously deleted. I will follow the demise the /var partition tomorrow.
Many thanks Mike -----Original Message----- From: ABrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 20:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running out of disk space Help! On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:24:09 +1300 Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I seem to be loosing disk space on /var > > I have deleted many unnecessary logs and other files but when I deleted the > files I did get back the disk space the file held > > Any help gratefully received You can create new subdirectories with new patitions. For instance, you could add a new partition and move everything inside /var/spool/news to it and mount the partition as /var/spool/news (make sure you put it in fstab or it won't get mounted when it should). The same with anything else there: /var/log, /var/spool, or anything else. You can create a new, larger partition, and move everything to it, umount the old, mount the new. You'd likely have to do some in single user mode, and even then make changes in fstab and reboot. /var is a partition that isn't happy with being umounted at any time other than shutdown. You can try one of the partition resizers (parted for one). I've never used any of them so I make no guarantees You can change the settings in /etc/logrotate.conf to free some space more often. It would be better, though, to try one of the others if possible. This isn't the optimal solution. -- Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list This mail was processed by Mail essentials for Exchange/SMTP, the email security & management gateway. Mail essentials adds content checking, email encryption, anti spam, anti virus, attachment compression, personalised auto responders, archiving and more to your Microsoft Exchange Server or SMTP mail server. For more information visit http://www.mailessentials.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
