Re: /var is getting full

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Graham Watkins
<shellycat.gw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists) wrote:
On Sat, October 10, 2009 10:15, Graham Watkins wrote:

Hi folks,

The other day when installing some updates, I got a warning message
saying that /var was too full.

I checked using df and found it was 94% used.  (The partition is
4.2Gb.)  This certainly seems a lot.  My 9.04 installation is just over
a month old so I'm surprised it's got full so quickly.

What's the best (safest) way of slimming it down?


Please give us the output of

sudo du -hs /var



(sudo because there are some directories that are only accessible for root)


Thet will tell us where the biggest space hog is.
With that knowledge, we can give you better advice.



Hi Amedee,

sudo du -hs /var/*

3.3G    /var/backup
4.3M    /var/backups
36M    /var/cache
4.0K    /var/crash
44K    /var/games
251M    /var/lib
4.0K    /var/local
0    /var/lock
12M    /var/log
16K    /var/lost+found
4.0K    /var/mail
4.0K    /var/opt
112K    /var/run
292K    /var/spool
2.5M    /var/tmp

As/ /I wrote before, /var/backups  is taking up most of the space and
contains a single file named

2009-09-26_10.27.20.524996.graham-desktop.ful

I think, and please correct me if you know different, that this is a legacy file from the sbackup program which I had installed for about a week and then removed.  I have no idea why it would save a backup in /var though.  I'm thinking that I can probably delete it without causing any problems though I might just move it first and see what happens.

I'm open to suggestions though.

Graham



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Actually /var/backup (no S) is taking up the most space....your
/var/backups is taking up roughly the same amount as mine is. I,
however, do not have a /var/backup folder, so I am curious as to what
is in there taking up 3.3 gigs

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