VAR 100%

[kizziebutler]

Recommendation on clearing out VAR. BDF is showing that VAR is showing 100% full. I have cleared down

cp /dev/null wtmp
cp /dev/null syslog.log

This has brought down VAR is 98%, please can anybody recommend anything else which I may have missed.

Thank you

 

[KenCunningham]

Try a find /var -size +5000 to check for any core files or other logs which are getting too large - possibly wtmpx? Maybe the print sub-system has caused the problem?

 

[Chacalinc]

take a look to /var/log

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry - meant to add that if +5000 gives no results, try decrementing it by 1000 at a time until it produces some result.

 

[pete91z]

How about cd'ing to /var and running du -k . to find out the used capacity of the subdirectories?

 

[new2me]

/var/preserve could have large files when a user exit vi inproperly etc (also it slow down the boot process).

 

[jxmac18]

Some simple techiques.

Find the largest files:
cd /var; find . -type f -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n

Find files updated today
find /var -mtime 0 -exec ls -ld {} \;

Always run fuser or lsof across a file before removing it, if it's active the space may not be returned to the filesystem, until the processes are terminated.

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Jack