Re: /var got really big
- From: John Hubbard <ender8282@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:28:02 -0700
CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
John Hubbard wrote:How well would that work if my other machines are different operating
I have a 1 day old install of ubuntu 8.04 server. My /var directory is
pretty big. It seems that most of it is a collection of about 900MB of
.debs in /var/cache/apt/archives. (I installed kde, gnome and xfce
desktops) I usually won't worry too much but I installed /var on a
separate 3GB partition and if it keeps growing it will run out of
space. My laptop's /var is only 90MB which is what led me to think 3GB
would be plenty of space. Do the files in the apt archive ever get
cleaned out? Is it safe to delete them?
Others have suggested you clean the apt cache. Since you have more than
one machine, I'd suggest you do the opposite. Install and configure
apt-cacher on your server and import the packages that are in
/var/cache/apt/archives into your apt-cacher cache, which could be
wherever you want it to be, though the default is in
/var/cache/apt-cacher. Your laptop would then download from your local
apt-cacher cache rather than have to download the same packages as your
server from the Internet. It saves on bandwidth and makes the update
process faster. If a package exists in the cache, it will be used. If
not, it will be fetched from an on-line repository.
systems? My laptop is still running gutsy because I had problems with
hardy. It is a 32 bit machine. I am thinking about trying Intrepid on
it since (I think) my broadcom wireless adapter is now supported without
the need for ndiswrapper. One of my other machines is a mythbuntu
machine (still in progress) that will run Intrepid but the 64 bit version.
By the way, the problem you're having, that of running out of space onI know that it is possible to use raid and LVM together but it also
/var, illustrates why using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a good idea.
LVM makes shrinking or expanding filesystems much easier. If your /var
and say, /home, are on logical volumes, assuming you have room to spare
on /home, you could shrink /home and expand /var, if you needed to. You
still have plenty of free space on /var so you don't have to worry for
now. If they're not on logical volumes, it's a bit more work but it's
still possible. I suppose you could even symlink /var/cache/apt to a
directory on another filesystem that has free space.
sounded really complicated. Maybe it would have been easier in the long
run though. The machine is still young enough that it might make sense
to reinstall again. Maybe I should just ask for more advice before
installing.
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-john
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255, that is the answer.
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