[mdlug] WTF /var/log

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Robert Jim Fulner wrote:

> I booted into GNOME today after I had had a bunch of weird things going 
> on in LXDE were I normally reside. (Like being told I had 36GB of free 
> space, and also being told there was not enough room to save the word 
> processing document I was writing).
> 
> In GNOME I was greated with a message informaing me i had 0 bytes of 
> space left. WTF, I have like nothing on this machine, I'm not a 
> music/video guy...
> 
> Run the Disk Use Analyser as requested, and /var/log is using up 98% of 
> the space on my system.
> 
> The only thing I can think that this may have to do with is that after 
> Penguincon I got really excited about a few of the panels I went to and 
> installed Drupal6 without really knowing what I was doing and realizing 
> later that's not really approiate for my home machine, and is intended 
> to be on the webserver itself. So I'm not using any of that bolonga, but 
> I'm gonna guess that's what's eating my resources.
> 
> Is my conjecture accurate? What's the best way to go from here to get 
> useable space back without screwing up my system in the process.


   df -h 

   ...will show your individual partions and how much space they are 
configured for and how much of that is being used.

   *MANY* things depend upon the /var directory to do their work.  If /var 
fills up - things tend to stop working.    Show us the output of "df -h" 
and we can narrow down what action you need to take.

      --- Jay

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