Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 01:45:15 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA=20=F7=2E=20=EF=CC=C5=CA=CE=C9=CB?= (Andy V. Oleynik) <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: Dan Lazin <dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var is full, though it shouldn't be Message-ID: <37AB6579.75459979@prime.net.ua> References: <008801bee05a$32c36fe0$ba9cb8a1@dan>
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Jiesus, Dan! It's not honour to give so many space to /var :))) May be somebody will offer better solution but I recommend reallocate ur present /var for swap and symlink /var to /usr/var :) Dan Lazin wrote: > Hello, all. > > I was running cat to squish together various apache log files so that they > could be analyzed by by new log-analyzers, and /var ran out of disk space > (my log files total around 8Mb, so when I took all of that and put it into a > new file, I had 16Mb of logs, plus over 4Mb of other stuff). No problem. I > deleted the new log, and told cat to build it over on / . > > Then / ran out of space (I'm not really with it today). So I tried /usr > instead, and that worked fine. Then I noticed that this logfile was 16Mb, > and had grabbed the biggest of the logfiles twice. So I tried to open it up > in vi, but this seems to have been a bad idea. I got told that I had a full > filesystem, and, once again, it was /var. But /var shouldn't be full. I ran > 'ls -l -R' and I have nowhere near 20Mb of stuff. It's closer to 5Mb, since > I've now moved all of my logfiles over to /usr/log and symlinked that to > /var/log. What's eating up that space, and how do I rid myself of it? > > df sez: > esther# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s1a 39647 18477 17999 51% / > /dev/wd0s1f 2852470 240264 2384009 9% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 19815 18699 -469 103% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Many thanks in advance. > > (note: I just tried to send this, and it's refusing to take it since /var is > full, so I've had to use an account on another server. I want my mail > service back!) > > Dan Lazin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Andy V. Oleynik (When U aim for perfection, U discover it's a moving target ö80) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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