[GLLUG] Mounting All Partitions!

STeve Andre' andres at msu.edu
Mon Feb 13 16:06:40 EST 2012


On 02/13/12 15:36, Ben Chavez wrote:
> I remember there was a discussion about /var being full and the OS reporting
> a full file system. I don't think I saw a solution for this problem and,
> well I am having that problem right now. So if somebody would kindly explain
> how to free up space I will highly appreciate it.
>
> Thank you.
>

du is your friend.  Go into /var and do

     du -s *

and you should see the size of things.  That'll tell you where
your pigs are.

Then, rm is your friend--up to a point.  Be sure you aren't
zapping anything important.  A guess would be that you have
log files that are growing?

--STeve Andre'



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