/var is getting full

[Colin Law]

2009/10/10 Graham Watkins <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>:
> Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>> Delete the logs you no longer need. If you run a bunch of daemons
>> enabling verbose logging, the log files can get astonishingly big.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion Alexandra.  However, /var/log is only 10.8Mb
> so I don't think the problem lies there.
>
>  /var contains the following folders:
>
> backup   cache  games  local  log         mail  run    tmp
> backups  crash  lib    lock   lost+found  opt   spool
>
> My suspicions are raised by the backups folder. This seems to be using
> up most of the 4.2Gb.  I briefly had sbackup installed but I've since
> removed it.  If this folder relates to sbackup I can probably remove it
> with no grief.
>

Is it too obvious to suggest you have a look and see what is taking
the space there?

Colin