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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:20:59 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: var out of space
Message-ID:  <17797.39067.806508.359566@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0612171110x4a9549deu936a92700186e016@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com writes:

>  More to the point, you might want to find out what is
>  filling your /var as that is quite a lot of space being used
>  if you are not running a mailserver.
>  du -d1 -h /var (as root) should give you some clues.

	Allow me to suggest instead:

	du /var | sort -nr | head -n 25

	Run daily (or even weekly), you can become familiar with what's
using space and have a chance to notice when things change.


				Robert Huff



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