On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: >>>I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, >>> and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in >>> them. >>> >>> >>>Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at >>>the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the log files, but I >>>don't know what happens if I just delete the files in these three >>>directories. >> >> That will eat your lunch. If logrotate is properly setup, those >> files will not grow beyond what they are as the old ones will be >> expunged > >[snip] > >> With disc space a commodity thing, a 500 meg /var partition is > >But if you have only one disc, it is a fungible commodity, and >reclamation is the way to go. I agree with logrotate. I use it, >and my /var looks like this... > ># du -s /var/* | sort -gr >81528 /var/lib >77484 /var/cache >60184 /var/spool >5416 /var/log >1500 /var/tmp >1132 /var/www >128 /var/run >32 /var/yp >... > >I don't think that 5MB is too big for my log files. I *do* wonder >about /var/spool, however. Hmm... > ># du -s /var/spool/* | sort -gr >57904 /var/spool/up2date >2056 /var/spool/cups >164 /var/spool/mail >16 /var/spool/anacron >... > >Yep, my package manager's the culprit. And... > ># du -s /var/cache/* | sort -gr >76056 /var/cache/yum >1160 /var/cache/man >196 /var/cache/gstreamer-0.8 >56 /var/cache/alchemist >... > >Also my package manager. > >> unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in >> du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on >> /dev/hdd, a > >That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find >it imaginable that /var would be < 500MB, my /var is < 300MB. And >on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though >it tends to come back). > ># df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda5 7633264 6147620 1097896 85% / >/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in some folders just to speed the agent up a bit. And what are you using /dev/hda1 & 2 for, windoze? tsk tsk... >Not everyone can afford hundreds of Gigs of disc space. >If disc is so cheap, will you buy me a new, larger drive? See above, hda1 and hda2 probably have more than enough space to play in. And lots of shops may have used 20's to 40's laying around, available for a $20 bill. I'm not rich by any means, I'm 71 & almost retired, on SS, but that doesn't mean I'd starve if I bought another $120 300GB drive yet today. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
