On 09-Nov-01 Linux wrote: > 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.
are you running accounting ? accounting eats disk like there is no tomorrow, so to speak... -Greg > 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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Nov-01 Time: 17:15:52 You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
