Filesystems, Disks and Memory

du -ks /var/* | sort -n | more

Should show you each file and directory in /var sorted on size.
It's not defenit what can be thrown away.

find / -name core -type f

Shows you core files that can be thrown away.

find / -type f -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \;

should show you files larger than 10Mb. It might be nice to take a close look at these.

fuser -fu <file>

Would be nice to examine before removing a file. In case of a doubt only null a file like :

>/my/path/to/file


Please try to get a course, you seem to miss quiet some basics.


Regs David

based on your df output you could link directories to /space like /usr /opt. i would recommend to do this in single user mode or even better with a live-cd-os. be carefull: you have to keep the permissions otherwise your system will never come up. i would work with find and cpio.....

eg.:
root@/opt # find . -print -depth | cpio -pdmu /space/opt/

greetings Preßy

I finally got a chance to use your suggestion Pressy. It worked great. I used it on another machine that had no room left in /var so I used your solution to transfer /var/sadm to /. I do have a question though. what if i want to do that with /var. when you try and delete /var it will not allow it so then you cannot create the symbolic link.

Thanks

hmm......
never tried it with /var, could be difficult, because /var/run ....
but you could clean up your /var
e.g.
/var/crash
/var/adm
/var/sadm

but if you have a free partition or a new disk you could copy it while using a live-cd-OS.

greetings Preßy