/var is getting full

[Didar Hossain]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Graham Watkins
<shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Didar Hossain wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Graham Watkins
>> <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> The other day when installing some updates, I got a warning message
>>> saying that /var was too full.
>>>
>>> I checked using df and found it was 94% used.  (The partition is
>>> 4.2Gb.)  This certainly seems a lot.  My 9.04 installation is just over
>>> a month old so I'm surprised it's got full so quickly.
>>>
>>> What's the best (safest) way of slimming it down?
>>>
>>
>> I wonder if "apt-get clean" help?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Didar
>>
>>
> Thanks for the reply.  Been there, done that. Still 94% used though.

Time to check for the largest disk eating directories -

sudo du -sh /var/*

That should tell you where to start looking for.

HTH,
Didar