[ish-don-sink-so]

hey people,

i have a problem in that /var says its full but i have nothing large on my machine, i didnt think i partitioned it at all, i think the whole thing is on / :)
20 gig. I was thinking it could be logs but i am not sure what to delete or how i should retreive the disk space so i dont get all errors.

ben

[bsdjunkie]

Try running the following to check disk usage in /var:

du -a /var

If everything is in / you may also want to to a df -h as well.

[Strog]

I've been using du -hd1 / to get a nice list of usage in my root directories. Too bad Open/Net doesn't have that option. :( There's a similar setup for linux du that I've been using at work on the ftp server to get usage of user's home directories.

It's a good way to get a feel of how much space your partitions are needing if you want to break it down.

[code:1:c288913219]
[dale@hydrogen dale]$ du -hd1 /
1.5K /dev
54G /export
246K /tmp
9.0G /usr
9.3M /var
2.4M /stand
1.4M /etc
2.0K /cdrom
2.0K /dist
7.7M /bin
36M /boot
2.0K /mnt
2.0K /proc
40K /root
24M /sbin
63G /
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[frisco]

I've been using du -hd1 / to get a nice list of usage in my root directories. Too bad Open/Net doesn't have that option. :(

You can get similar functionality out of du -sh /*

[code:1:fc615590ea]
mogu:~ frisco$ du -hd1 .
8.0K ./.ssh
0B ./Desktop
0B ./Documents
1.5M ./Library
0B ./Movies
0B ./Music
0B ./Pictures
0B ./Public
20K ./Sites
1.5M .
mogu:~ frisco$ du -sh *
0B ./Desktop
0B ./Documents
1.5M ./Library
0B ./Movies
0B ./Music
0B ./Pictures
0B ./Public
20K ./Sites
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Note some absences in the second, this is somewhat correctable with different expressions.