[Novalug] another more or less trivial question for a tech session.

David A. Cafaro dac@cafaro.net
Thu Jan 3 11:25:44 EST 2008


What kind of system  is this (debian, redhat/fedora, etc..).  You  
might need to clean out some old install header files or cached  
packages in addition to old log files.

Also go to the /var directory and run "du -hs *" to see what  
directories are taking up the most space.

As a quick fix to get more space for var given you don't appear to be  
running LVM, you can create symlinks to to opt.

Example have /var/cache be a symlink to /opt/var/cache so that space  
is saved on the /var partition and moved to the /opt partition.

On my cento 3 system /var/cache uses the most pace on /var at 1.1GB  
of storage used.

Cheers,
David

On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Nino Pereira wrote:

> Hi, to all you gurus:
>
> here's another problem, of the type that can hang you up forever
> until you hear the solution from an expert: what to do when you have
> 'not enough space left on device'.
>
> When I update and upgrade, all the space in /var is eaten up somehow,
> taken up. df gives:
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1              5044156    218240   4569684   5% /
> tmpfs                   518356         0    518356   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                     10240      1532      8708  15% /dev
> tmpfs                   518356         4    518352   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda6              1011928   1007600         0 100% /var
> /dev/hda5              1011928     26356    934168   3% /tmp
> /dev/hda7             10080488   4455172   5113248  47% /usr
> /dev/hda8             10080488    413752   9154668   5% /opt
> /dev/hda9             40321996  10736080  27537632  29% /home
> /dev/hda10            46538796     69492  46469304   1% /scratch
>
> But, /opt is almost empty. The two questions that come up are:
> 1: where did all the space go? and how do you find this out; and
> 2: how do you give /var more space?
>
> On 2, I once made a soft link to something that's empty, like /opt.
> I suspect it's /opt/apt-archives, but, how do I find out whether  
> there's
> a soft link to this directory?
>
> Questions, questions...
>
> Nino
>
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