Sorry for the delayed reply. Thanks! Yesterday I deleted *.log files and unwanted 
mail. May be the warning was the result of my downloading e-mail and keeping all of it?

Diwakar

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:45:54 +0530
USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I am not very sure of MDK-8.2. On a workstation,  normally  about
> 100 to 150 mb is adequate for /var. Don't  really  know  what  is
> taking the space. In another post you have noted that  you have a
> 105 mb /var of which about 46 mb is used. This should be  enough.
> 
> You can find out of some files have grown out of proportion,  and
> suitable for pruning. The following will help  detect space hogs.
> (Total usage and file wise usage would be obtained).
> 
> #du -s -b /var             .... get size of /var in bytes
> #du -a -b /var > somefile  .... get component sizes  (in bytes)
> #less somefile
> 
> In any case, you have a 2.2 gig "/" partition of which more than
> one gig is free. As per your other post:
> 
> /dev/hda5             2.2G  1.1G  1.0G  50% /
> 
> You may always move your /var under / since you have  over 1 gig
> left, and use this 105 mb partition for some other  purpose like
> archive or something else which won't expand dynamically.
> 
> Just my 2p


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