Drive Warning: /dev/sda2 (/var) is 82% full

**Talker** · 04-30-2008

Hi,

Can someone tell me what i should be doing in this case?
cPanel sent this notifcation..
Drive Warning: /dev/sda2 (/var) is 82% full

/var is 10GB and 82% is used up.
Here is the "du -sh *" for the var directory.

Code:

12K     account
32K     aquota.user
533M    cache
497M    cpanel
16K     crash
28K     db
28K     empty
16K     ftp
5.3G    lib
8.0K    local
36K     lock
622M    log
16K     lost+found
4.0K    mail
1.8M    named
155M    netenberg
8.0K    nis
8.0K    opt
4.0K    portsentry
8.0K    preserve
84K     profiles
20K     quota.user
780K    run
593M    spool
3.2M    tmp
8.0K    tux
15M     www
24K     yp

I guess i should be cleaning up the dir, however im not sure where and how to begin. Can someone please guide me what i should do?

**devils casper** · 04-30-2008

Hi and Welcome !

Which distro are you using?

**jledhead** · 04-30-2008

this command was an awesome fine for me

Code:

du -k /foldername | sort -n | tail -10

finds the 10 largest folder and sorts it by size. it looks like you already have the largest offenders though:
cpanel, log, lib, and spool.

so you could start with log and see if your logs are rotating properly or just rotating out until the drive fills up. spool, do you store mail on this server, I mean do you pop or mostly webmail (so it stays on the server)
cpanel (no idea)
lib, looks like you have lots of goodies installed. maybe my command above substituting /var/lib for the foldername will tell you the biggest offenders

**Talker** · 04-30-2008

Thanks jleadhead.

Ok....

Here are the results from
du -k /var/lib | sort -n | tail -10

Code:

62684   /var/lib/rpm
73756   /var/lib/Pegasus
132584  /var/lib/mysql/youclass_market
212888  /var/lib/mysql/fastnet_plst1
212968  /var/lib/mysql/ikarachi_ibrd1
216736  /var/lib/mysql/xresults_plst1
460844  /var/lib/mysql/traffix_mt
703472  /var/lib/mysql/imsn_imsn
5316160 /var/lib/mysql
5468052 /var/lib

I guess they are all Mysql databases ?? or are these databases using the disk temporarily?

Would it be safe to delete anything here?

Talker.

**devils casper** · 04-30-2008

Originally Posted by Talker

Thanks jleadhead.

What do i have to do to reduce the DU ?
Is there any way to clean up the pop or logs as you mentioned earlier?

We can't help you unless you tell us which distro are you using.

**Talker** · 04-30-2008

Originally Posted by devils casper

We can't help you unless you tell us which distro are you using.

How can i get the distro specifically?

Here are the results from
du -k /var/lib | sort -n | tail -10

Code:

62684   /var/lib/rpm
73756   /var/lib/Pegasus
132584  /var/lib/mysql/youclass_market
212888  /var/lib/mysql/fastnet_plst1
212968  /var/lib/mysql/ikarachi_ibrd1
216736  /var/lib/mysql/xresults_plst1
460844  /var/lib/mysql/traffix_mt
703472  /var/lib/mysql/imsn_imsn
5316160 /var/lib/mysql
5468052 /var/lib

I guess they are all Mysql databases ?? or are these databases using the disk temporarily?

Would it be safe to delete anything here?

Talker.

**devils casper** · 04-30-2008

Execute this

Code:

cat /etc/*release
cat /etc/*version

Post output here.

**Talker** · 04-30-2008

Originally Posted by devils casper

Execute this

Code:

cat /etc/*release
cat /etc/*version

Post output here.

CentOS release 4.6 (Final)

**devils casper** · 04-30-2008

Okk ! Clean Cache files first.

Code:

su -
yum clean all

/var has library files and you should not delete those.
Remove log files if you want.

**Talker** · 05-01-2008

Originally Posted by devils casper

Okk ! Clean Cache files first.

Code:

su -
yum clean all

/var has library files and you should not delete those.
Remove log files if you want.

Thanks.. that dropped the usage down to 72%...
I dont think the log files are using much space. Anything else recommended?

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