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Re: aha!

Turbo Fredriksson
03 Oct 1998 10:43:23 -0700

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Geoff Smith <
> wrote:

> All right.
>
> After puzzling and puzzling over what was eating up all my hard-drive
> space, I used Vlad's helpful little command "du" to see where the space
> was being taken up. I found 480/580 MB in /var. A little more sleuthing
> found 400/480MB were in /log. My syslog, kern.log, and and debug are all
> over 100MB each! Can I just delete these files, or what should I do???

Sure... But you migth want to take the system down to single user (telinit s)
first, then remove the files, and then go multiuser again (telinit 2).

There might be programs/daemons that uses those files, and if the file is
removed 'under there noses', they might not like it... :)

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