[plug] Disk space ...

[Timothy White]

On 5/22/06, Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> /var probably has a *LOT* of crud accummulated unless you're
> maintaining mailboxes with IMAP; or you have a humungous newsfeed...
> I won't even try to imagine what somebody would do with a huge squid
> proxy cache...
>
> Clean up old log files (in /var/log) before you do anything else.

Yer, /var can fill with heaps of junk.

Take for example....
$ sudo du -hs /var/log/
972M    /var/log/
That is the majority of my /var, although the squid cache takes up
most of the rest, as does the apt cache.

Tim
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