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/var is 82% full on my server. The majority of this space is being taken by the /tmp directory.
One question, am I okay to delete the contents of the /tmp directory without affecting any of the server's processes etc?
Drive Warning: /dev/sda3 (/var) is 82% full !!!
Hi,
/var is 82% full on my server. The majority of this space is being taken by the /tmp directory.
One question, am I okay to delete the contents of the /tmp directory without affecting any of the server's processes etc?
More research:
df -h
du -h --max-depth=1 /varCode:Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 2.0G 242M 1.7G 13% / /dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot none 504M 0 504M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 130G 6.0G 118G 5% /home /dev/sda7 494M 11M 458M 3% /tmp /dev/sda2 9.9G 4.0G 5.4G 43% /usr /dev/sda3 2.5G 1.9G 424M 82% /var /tmp 494M 11M 458M 3% /var/tmp
du -ah --max-depth=1 /var/cacheCode:8.0K /var/local 76M /var/spool 192K /var/named 772K /var/run 16K /var/crash 731K /var/tmp 24K /var/empty 8.0K /var/preserve 161M /var/cpanel 28K /var/db 8.0K /var/opt 684M /var/lib 84K /var/profiles 24K /var/yp 855M /var/cache 12K /var/portsentry 103M /var/log 1.2M /var/www 8.0K /var/nis 12K /var/account 36K /var/lock 16K /var/lost+found 1.9G /var
Code:853M /var/cache/yum 16K /var/cache/samba 4.0K /var/cache/mod_ssl 4.0K /var/cache/mod_proxy 1.9M /var/cache/man 855M /var/cache
1st Problem is in Yum.
du -ah --max-depth=1 /var/cache/yum
du -ah --max-depth=1 /var/cache/yumCode:568K /var/cache/yum/extras 0 /var/cache/yum/.gpgkeyschecked.yum 266M /var/cache/yum/update 40K /var/cache/yum/addons 587M /var/cache/yum/base 853M /var/cache/yum
The problem is in /yum/packages....can I delete this ?Code:561M /var/cache/yum/base/packages 21M /var/cache/yum/base/headers 612K /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz 4.9M /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite 0 /var/cache/yum/base/cachecookie 4.0K /var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml 587M /var/cache/yum/base
2nd problem
[b]du -ah --max-depth=1 /var/lib
2nd Problem is in MySQLCode:8.0K /var/lib/pcmcia 4.7M /var/lib/slocate 8.0K /var/lib/games 12K /var/lib/dhcp 4.0K /var/lib/random-seed 12K /var/lib/alternatives 8.0K /var/lib/up2date 8.0K /var/lib/php 23M /var/lib/rpm 28K /var/lib/nfs 8.0K /var/lib/logrotate.status 8.0K /var/lib/dhcpv6 656M /var/lib/mysql 272K /var/lib/spamassassin 16K /var/lib/misc 4.0K /var/lib/dav 4.0K /var/lib/supportinfo 684M /var/lib
Remedy: I have checked the databases and will remove db's that are no longer in use.
The most common places where space is used on var is /var/log and /var/lib/mysql and /var/spool/exim
Clear up the old logs, mail queue, and any unneeded mysql databases.
If necessary, mysql can be moved to another drive or partition.
Thanks...logs is only using 103mb !
The main one is /var/cache/yum/base/packages which is over 500mb. Can I delete the contents of this folder ?
I have deleted old db's and have saved 5% !
Obviously 500mb of a 1.9gb partition is a lot....I could do with reducing the content of the yum folder if possible....
Please help me
run the following as root:
yum clean all
this will clean the yum caches and headers
Nice one....that has reduced the size of /var to 40%
Thanks mate
well I have the following under log:
-rw-r----- 1 root root 5288 May 8 06:10 acpid
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 10 09:32 audit
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 3 00:00 bandwidth
-rw------- 1 root root 1375 Apr 1 09:23 boot.log
-rw------- 1 root utmp 3072 Apr 29 16:56 btmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25567215 May 13 23:14 chkservd.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 09:58 conman
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342 Apr 20 22:57 cpupdate.env
-rw------- 1 root root 11366287 May 13 23:15 cron
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Apr 17 18:55 cups
drwx------ 10 root root 4096 May 13 23:15 dcpumon
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20433 May 8 06:09 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 1325736768 May 13 23:16 exim_mainlog
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 344 Apr 2 00:52 exim_paniclog
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 593460677 May 13 23:16 exim_rejectlog
-rw------- 1 root root 12480 Apr 29 21:22 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9364440 May 13 23:13 lastlog
-rw------- 1 root root 1100656 May 13 23:13 lfd.log
-rw------- 1 root root 988220007 May 13 23:16 maillog
-rw------- 1 root root 49891594 May 13 23:13 messages
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 2 00:56 pm
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 20 22:27 ppp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 2 04:07 prelink
-rw------- 1 root root 76353 May 13 04:07 rkhunter.log
-rw------- 1 root root 5039 May 13 04:07 rkhunter.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20538 May 13 04:07 rpmpkgs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 00:00 sa
-rw------- 1 root root 45976548 May 13 22:57 secure
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 01:10 spooler
drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 Jan 20 22:15 squid
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 2 00:51 tallylog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 367488 May 13 23:13 wtmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Mar 25 00:50 xferlog -> ../../usr/local/apache/domlogs/ftpxferlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 13 00:50 xferlog.offset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Mar 25 00:42 xferlog.offsetftpsep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14020 May 8 00:50 yum.log
which can I delete? And will they be recreated?
thanks
You do not need to delete the files, you can just empty them like this.Originally Posted by screege
>exim_mainlog;>maillog;
and so on.
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thanks a lot, is there any script that can be done and that could be run via cron?
Thank you
Hi, we moved the mysql dir to /home/mysql and seemed to be working fine til we tried to erase the dir /var/lib/mysq.
Now mysql webpages are not working and we have this error when trying to access:
MySQL Error!
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The Error returned was:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Error Number:
1
Any idea about what can we do?
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