need space on /usr & /var

[PPNSteve]

i'm trying to either add a new account or edit an existing one and recieve this error message: "The /usr, /, or /var partition on this server is running out of disk space. This WHM operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition."

Now i'm fairly sure it's the log files.. Question is how do I get rid of this problem and clear up some space?

what can be deleted? is there a log rotaion script that i'm not seeing?
or what solution is there to prevent this in the first place?

any help you can provide will help.. as we can't do anything right now with our boxes..

edited..
PS - I saw the thread about the temp files and they were removed about a week ago.. I'm fairly sure it's the logs...

[WeMasterz5]

Default Home Directory:
Enter the location where you desire to have new user's home directories created. By default, it will select the disk or partition with the least usage.



where is it you have WHM set to place the accounts

[PPNSteve]

nothing is wrong in the /home partition.. it's only at 46% usage... it's the /usr and /var partitions that keep filling up.. mostly the /usr (logs i suspect) i just need a way to clear them every week or so.. but not damage files that HAVE to be in there..

[WeMasterz5]

oh....I kinda new to this so bare or ignore me

what do you have in the Show Current Disk Usage



Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 ext3 494M 147M 321M 32% /
/dev/hda1 ext3 99M 19M 74M 20% /boot
/dev/hda3 ext3 36G 569M 33G 2% /home
none tmpfs 251M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 ext3 37G 1.1G 33G 4% /usr
/dev/hdb2 ext3 1004M 146M 807M 16% /var

[PPNSteve]

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 ext3 1011M 296M 664M 31% /
/dev/hda1 ext3 30M 6.9M 21M 24% /boot
/dev/hda8 ext3 47G 21G 23G 47% /home
none tmpfs 440M 0 439M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7 ext3 494M 20M 448M 5% /tmp
/dev/hda2 ext3 3.9G 3.8G 0 100% /usr
/dev/hda3 ext3 2.0G 1.8G 164M 92% /var

is what's currently shown....

[WeMasterz5]

what if I may ask is is the /var of your system

thanks

[PPNSteve]

it's all default cPanel6 setup's..

[WeMasterz5]

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Feb 27 02:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Mar 17 09:06 ../
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 9216 Mar 23 17:44 aquota.user*
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 24 15:01 cache/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 11 03:49 cpanel/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 1998 db/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 24 14:59 empty/
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 8 03:50 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 local/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root lock 4096 Mar 23 04:22 lock/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 23 04:02 log/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 24 14:55 lost+found/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 24 14:56 mail -> spool/mail/
drwxr-xr-x 3 named named 4096 Mar 22 03:19 named/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 nis/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 2000 opt/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 17 09:07 portsentry/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 preserve/
----r---w- 1 root proftpd 6 Feb 24 20:57 proftpd.pid
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 2097120 Feb 27 02:57 quota.user*
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar 23 16:45 run/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 24 20:44 spool/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 19:55 tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 2002 tux/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Feb 24 21:10 www/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 24 15:01 yp/

[PPNSteve]

./ cache/ local/ mail@ portsentry/ run/ yp/
../ cpanel/ lock/ named/ preserve/ spool/
aquota.user* db/ log/ nis/ proftpd.pid tmp/
arpwatch/ lib/ lost+found/ opt/ quota.user* www/

BTW how did you get that file/dir listing?? ftp?

[WeMasterz5]

I am logged in as root in shell

[PPNSteve]

what command?

[WeMasterz5]

oh sorry

ls -l

[Curious Too]

It's probably the /var/cpanel/bandwidth directory - with the change in how cpanel calculates bandwidth that directory is almost 200MB in size now -- I had to move it to another partition on some machines.

[haider]

Originally posted by PPNSteve
i'm trying to either add a new account or edit an existing one and recieve this error message: "The /usr, /, or /var partition on this server is running out of disk space. This WHM operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition."

Now i'm fairly sure it's the log files.. Question is how do I get rid of this problem and clear up some space?

what can be deleted? is there a log rotaion script that i'm not seeing?
or what solution is there to prevent this in the first place?

any help you can provide will help.. as we can't do anything right now with our boxes..

edited..
PS - I saw the thread about the temp files and they were removed about a week ago.. I'm fairly sure it's the logs...

Yes these are logs eating up all your space. These may be located in apache/domlogs

del these files freely and your space will be free.

Or you can hire me as an admin to do these things on your boxes ;-). I am doing these jobs for a long time now.

[PPNSteve]

root@cpanel1 [/var]# ls -l
total 132
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Mar 23 21:21 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Mar 23 21:28 ../
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 8192 Oct 4 03:49 aquota.user*
drwxr-xr-x 3 pcap pcap 4096 Oct 4 00:51 arpwatch/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 15 2002 cache/
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 22 00:01 cpanel/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 1998 db/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 17 04:12 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 local/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root lock 4096 Mar 23 04:25 lock/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 23 21:28 log/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 15 2002 lost+found/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 15 2002 mail -> spool/mail/
drwxr-xr-x 3 named named 8192 Mar 23 14:00 named/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 nis/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 2000 opt/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 23 21:29 portsentry/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 preserve/
--------w- 1 root proftpd 6 Mar 23 21:28 proftpd.pid
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 2097120 Mar 23 21:42 quota.user*
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 23 21:28 run/
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 4 00:33 spool/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 01:33 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 19 19:52 www/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 25 01:52 yp/


hmmm, let me check that too...

lots of 94Kb files....

this is so fustrating.. i can't use these server any more....