On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:54:23 Michael Klama wrote:
> Hello Larry,
> The output of cat /etc/fstab shows that /var is in LABEL=/var The
> output
> of /sbin/fdisk -l is as follows
> Device Blocks
> Hda1 56196
> Hda2 19952730
> Hda5 8843751
> Hda6 8843751
> Hda7 265041
> Hda8 265041
> Hda9 200781 swap
>
> I have been able to get /var down to about 55M by deleting most of
> the logs
> and removing all of the win4lin files that were in there. Of the
> 55M, 30M
> of it is in /var/lib.
Did this free up enough space so that you can get onto your system?
Did you ever succeed in getting win4lin installed?
For my own curiosity (if you don't mind): /var is on it's own
partition & which one? how much free space do you have in /var now
("df -h /var")?
FYI, if your logfiles were really big, you may want to tune
/etc/logrotate.conf. In addition to the "compress" option that I and
others mentioned, you can specify how often you want to rotate you
logs, and how many old logs you want to keep.
Also, logrotate runs from cron -- in a default install it is set to
run at 4:02 AM (see /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily/logrotate). So
unless your machine is on early in the morning, logrotate won't get
run, and your logs may grow quite big. If you don't want to leave
your machine on 24 hr/day, you might want to change your crontab so
daily jobs get run at a time when you usually have the machine on.
You can also run logrotate manually. I guess you could also add a
line to your rc.local file, so that logrotate runs whenever you boot
(probably only a good idea if your machine regularly goes through a
boot/power-off cycle once a day).
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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