RHEL4 no free space on var even after cleanup

[Brandon Coale]

Thanks Duncan, I think your exactly right, I think that would have done the trick and would have definitely been a more elegant solution.  

In fact, today I was paging through my Oreilly Linux Server Hacks book and noticed that was one of their tips as well.

Thanks also to Bob Fontana and Robert Cope for their input as well.

Brandon
 
> 
> Brandon,
> cat /dev/null > /var/log/cups/error_log  
> would also have done the trick without having to kill the cups daemon,
> but I guess you had a problem with that anyway!!
> Rgds
> Duncan
> At 08:37 27/11/2006, Brandon Coale wrote:
> Thank you Jean-Paul, good
> point.
> I did that and it still showed zero bytes free. 
> I called Dell Support and the technician Daniel had me do a lsof /var
> command and it showed that the /var/log/cups/error_log file was huge and
> continuously writing to the partition.
> I had to manually kill the cups daemon, and then I manually deleted this
> log file. Now I have more cleanup to do, but Daniel helped me get some
> free space.
> Thanks,
> Brandon
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 00:03 -0500, Brandon Coale wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am running RHEL4 ES on a PowerEdge 6600.
> > > 
> > > My df command shows that there is no space on /var even after I
> have
> > > deleted several big files. 
> > 
> > df -h prints human readable. do a 'df' without the -h flag. /bin/df
> if
> > it's aliased)
> > 
> > what you will find is that near the 100% limit, you can delete files
> and
> > the size doesn't look like it changes. df without the -h flag will
> tell
> > you absolutely how many bytes are free.
> > 
> > oh, and define 'big' *grin*
> > 
> > 
> > > [root at sbmmega01 var]# df -h
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/sda8 1012M 241M 720M 26% /
> > > /dev/sda3 99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
> > > none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
> > > /dev/sda6 494M 20M 449M 5% /tmp
> > > /dev/sda5 7.9G 4.9G 2.7G 65% /usr
> > > /dev/sda7 494M 494M 0 100% /var
> > > /dev/sda2 4.3G 1.7G 2.5G 41% /home
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> > jeanpaul.blaquiere at faredge.com.au
> >
> 
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> > (02) 8425 1410
> > 
> > 
> > 
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