Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

[Bug Hunter]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote:

> 
> > Most likely your trouble is with /var.  It has probably
> > accumulated a lot of log files.  Use the du command to
> > spot which is giving trouble.  Here is a listing of my du
> > command on my personal workstation:
> 
> That was one of my problems. It did free up enough that my print
> queue started to work again. But I see that I only have about six mb
> left and I suspect that is in imminent peril of being overwhelmed.

  I often run out of room on / and have plenty of room on /home.  I then
soft link /var/log to /home/log.dir, and the logging software happily puts
the files there.  you need to set the permissions so the universe can't
see the logs, but it works well.

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