[sclug] Re: sclug Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1

Fri Oct 6 20:36:19 UTC 2006

The problem turned out to be a lot of apt 'backup' stuff in the
/var/.Trashroot folder, which a normal user cannot usually see (it seems). I
tweaked Ubuntu so I could log in as root, then emptied the trash-bin and
that solved the problem.

Thanks for the help.

Why do I have a /var partition? It seemed a good idea at the time. :-)

Neil

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>    1. Moving /var to another parition (n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com)
>    2. Re: Moving /var to another parition (Roland Turner (SCLUG))
>    3. Re: Moving /var to another parition (Robin Lewis)
>    4. Re: Moving /var to another parition (Simon Huggins)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com" <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:43:38 +0100
> Subject: [sclug] Moving /var to another parition
> I'm having some problems with my /var parition running out of space. It's
> 1G
> partition but with Ubuntu it is already full - I've deleted all the logs
> and
> so on, but it fills up rapidly everytime I reboot.
>
> Can anyone suggest why? 1G seems a decent size, and  was more than
> adequate
> for Mandriva or Suse, when I used those.
>
> TIA
>
> Neil Haughton
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Roland Turner (SCLUG)" <raz.fpyht.bet.hx at raz.cx>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:57:55 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Moving /var to another parition
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 19:43 +0100, n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
>
> > I'm having some problems with my /var parition running out of space.
> It's 1G
> > partition but with Ubuntu it is already full - I've deleted all the logs
> and
> > so on, but it fills up rapidly everytime I reboot.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest why? 1G seems a decent size, and  was more than
> adequate
> > for Mandriva or Suse, when I used those.
>
> Well, what's it filling with? You said you cleaned out the logs; how big
> were they, what was the largest file, what was in it?
>
> (I'll stay away from "why do you have a /var partition?" :-))
>
> - Raz
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robin Lewis <goten at squad-wars.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:09:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Moving /var to another parition
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> n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with my /var parition running out of space.
> > It's 1G
> > partition but with Ubuntu it is already full - I've deleted all the
> > logs and
> > so on, but it fills up rapidly everytime I reboot.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest why? 1G seems a decent size, and  was more than
> > adequate
> > for Mandriva or Suse, when I used those.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Neil Haughton
> >
> >
> >
> Mine's presently at around 5GB, and it's not having much trouble.
> Also, if you regularly run out of space, setup a cronjob to tar.bz2
> them off onto other drives occasionally.
>
> - --
> Robin Lewis
> Proud Slackware user
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:15:38 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Moving /var to another parition
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:43:38PM +0100, n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with my /var parition running out of space.
> > It's 1G partition but with Ubuntu it is already full - I've deleted
> > all the logs and so on, but it fills up rapidly everytime I reboot.
>
> > Can anyone suggest why? 1G seems a decent size, and  was more than
> > adequate for Mandriva or Suse, when I used those.
>
> Have you been upgrading your distribution a lot?
>
> Does
> apt-get autoclean
> give you lots more space all of a sudden?
>
> Otherwise you'll have to work out where else the space is being used.
>
> --
> Simon Huggins  \ "What do you find bracing Basil?  the damp, the drizzle,
>                 \ the fog ..." - Sybil, Fawlty Towers
> http://www.earth.li/~huggie/                                htag.pl 0.0.22
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