[mdlug] WTF /var/log

[Brian Brodsky]

On 8/18/2011 6:03 PM, Garry Stahl wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> Quoting Garry Stahl<tesral at wowway.com>:
>>
>>
>>> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep; a good reason to have /var/log as its own volume.  Even on a
>>>> desktop/laptop system.  This is the most common problem I see regarding
>>>> omg-my-disk-is-full.
>>>>
>>> OK, I have the drive ready to install, how do I name that volume to make
>>> sure /var ends up there?  I have a 2 tera drive, 30 for /root, 4 for
>>> swap, ?/var rest /home.
>>> And should /var be the physical partition?
>>>
>> No, none of those should be physical partitions; they should all be
>> logical volumes.  Don't commit the entire physical volume - you can
>> grow this later if you discover you need to [resize even works
>> 'online' these days']
>>
>> I'd:
>> 12GB for root [probably bigger then you'll ever need]
>> 4GB for swap
>> 4Gb for /var/log
>> 250GB for /home
>>
> /home is at 425 gig now.  Why do you think 2 terabyte drives?
>

How much space is being used by /var now. What is the frequency you have 
setup for logrotate and how many versions of logs are you keeping. Are 
you sure all logs are being rotated?