Re: [Savannah-hackers] df /var

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:09:31AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> 
> The following http://savannah.gnu.org/docs/mrtg.php?i=df.var.html
> is pretty concerning.
> 
> Most of the data in /var cannot be removed.
> 
> So I think this partition should be resized. Normally, it should be
> done by someone with direct access to the box. Is it possible?
> 
> The better solution, IMHO, would be to resize /dev/hdb3 to save 4GB,
> to create a /dev/hdb4 (what are hdb1 and hdb2).


I looked at it and noticed:

[/var/log]# du -h .
4.0k    ./amanda/DailySet1
8.0k    ./amanda
412k    ./apache
983M    ./apache-ssl
116k    ./boa
75M     ./exim
496k    ./ksymoops
16k     ./mailman
4.0k    ./news
80k     ./ntpstats
36k     ./iptraf
52k     ./mrtg
32k     ./mysql
3.4M    ./sysstat
1.2G    .

[/var/log]# ls apache-ssl/ -alh
total 983M
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         8.0k Jan 12 06:48 .
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         8.0k Jan 18 07:37 ..
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          314M Jan 18 16:27 access.log
-rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data      74M Aug 23 04:41 access.log.0
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          310M Jan 12 06:50 access.log.1
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           23M Jan  5 07:42 access.log.2.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           16M Dec 29 06:42 access.log.3.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           18M Dec 22 07:06 access.log.4.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           18M Dec 15 07:26 access.log.5.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           29M Dec  8 07:36 access.log.6.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           15M Dec  1 07:38 access.log.7.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           17M Nov 24 07:13 access.log.8.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          4.0M Jan 18 16:25 error.log
-rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data     1.5M Apr 28  2002 error.log.0
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          4.2M Jan 12 06:48 error.log.1
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          171k Jan  5 06:49 error.log.2.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          168k Dec 29 06:39 error.log.3.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          242k Dec 22 06:53 error.log.4.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          210k Dec 15 06:39 error.log.5.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          227k Dec  8 06:46 error.log.6.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          209k Dec  1 06:37 error.log.7.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          163k Nov 24 06:37 error.log.8.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           57M Jan 18 16:27 ssl.log
-rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data      13M Apr 28  2002 ssl.log.0
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm           60M Jan 12 06:50 ssl.log.1
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.3M Jan  5 07:42 ssl.log.2.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.1M Dec 29 06:42 ssl.log.3.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.2M Dec 22 07:06 ssl.log.4.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.3M Dec 15 07:26 ssl.log.5.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.4M Dec  8 07:36 ssl.log.6.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.1M Dec  1 07:38 ssl.log.7.gz
-rw-r-----    1 root     adm          1.2M Nov 24 07:13 ssl.log.8.gz
[/var/log]#


I noticed the two > 300M files...

This is the only directory taking up a lot of space.


On the other hand it would be wise to resize the var partition.  I
would take 1 GIG off /audio-video and assign it to /var.

Rudy