/var is a standard subdirectory of the root directory in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that contains files to which the system writes data during the course of its operation.
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(Linux) /var/log organisation using logrotate and rsyslog without breaking important systems
This is likely to elicit calls to close as it's asking for opinions, but I don't know how or where to ask in a more appropriate manner. Apologies in advance if this offends - it's not intended that way, and there is an actual question, which is…
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/var file system gets full quickly
/var file system gets full quickly. Even the inodes' usage reaches 100%. We have to clear the logs regularly. We are not able to ssh also because of this. We have do a hard reboot eventually. We are not able to identify the exact root cause for the…
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What's the different of moving /var into a new partition between standard way and links?
I want to move /var into /mnt/var since /mnt is mount as a new big partition /dev/xvdb1.
[root@stepping-stone ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 20G 7.1G 12G 38% /
tmpfs 7.8G 16K 7.8G 1%…
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Var folder maxing out /dev/mapper/vg00-var
Over the past few years we have had multiple linux servers have the same problem time and time again, our /dev/mapper/vg00-var folder max out at 100%. which means all sites on the server die.
We have found a temporary solution for this which is to…
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CentOS 6.6 /var 100% but no big files
I have a server that is showing /var as being 100% full, but running the following command 'du -ks * | sort -nr | more' does not show any large directories:
60824 lib
25084 log
3960 cache
180 run
144 named
120 spool
92 tmp
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Ian
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