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[Master of Reality]

i have 0b left on my server, something is suddenly taking up all the space (i only had 10 MB before). But i cant run rpm to remove any of the useless stuff on my server. What should i do??!!! (other than copy the important stuff to my other computer and then re-install)

[rtgwbmsr]

Find something that you know you can delete anywhere, and delete it. Then use RPM.
You could also just browse for the stuff you want to delete, and delete it. When you can run RPM, remove the rest of the files.
Adding another drive from another Linux system might be good...or if you have one lying around (I keep a 1 GB on hand...)

HTH!

[Master of Reality]

i think thats my only option. I deleted samba and some other things. Then i ran rpm and half-way thorugh it said it ran outta space for temp files

[SpeeDFreaK]

Is one of your logs monitoring everything all of the time?

[voidmain]

Probably the logging on your network monitoring apps that you were mentioning last night. Those things can eat up disk fast and in a hurry.

That's why on servers you normally have many file systems, one of which is /var where logs usually go. If logs fill up the /var files system oh well, it won't effect the operation of the server.

If something is filling up your disk as fast as you delete you can always boot from an alternate source (tom's boot disk or knoppix) and mount the partition, figure out where all the disk space went, clean it up, modify scripts to not start that disk hog and reboot..

[ September 20, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Master of Reality]

i deleted all my logs and other stuff... I might isntall slackware 8.1 anyway.

[voidmain]

Is it on your proxy server?  The Squid cache can also get quite large. You can limit it or turn off the caching part and use it as a proxy only but I suspect there are other issues. How big is the partition and how much free space did you have in the last couple of days prior to the fill up?

[Master of Reality]

the first thing i did was clear the squid cache.
then i searched for any portsentry logs.. cleared them. Then i searched to see if COLD left any logs.. nope(i dont run COLD anymore). Then i deleted some folders at random... samba, mysql, mutella, some other stuff. I might jsut isntall slackware with ONLY a webserver, squid, ssh, portsentry, ipchains, and only essentials. I have so much unused shit on my redhat install, it would take me weeks to clear all the stuff i dont need. I am dling slackware 8.1 right now.

I am gonna put in 1 or two more hard drives (137MB and 250-300MB). I will prolly just use them as swap and keep my 1GB hd for the root directory.

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