I am not aware that I am using accounting. I have not switched it on, unless it is on by default
What do I check for Mike -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Hosler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 22:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Running out of disk space Help! 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 diskspace on >/var>> >> I have deleted many unnecessary logs and other files butwhen I> deleted >the>> files I did get back the disk space the file held>> >>Any help gratefully >received> > You can create new subdirectories with newpatitions. For instance, you> >could add a new partition and move everythinginside /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). Thesame with anything> else there: /var/log, /var/spool, or >anything else.> >You can create a new, larger partition, and move everything to it,> >umountthe 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 thatisn't happy with >being umounted at any time other than> shutdown.> > You cantry one of the partition >resizers (parted for one). I've never> used any ofthem so I make no gua! rantees> > 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 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
