/var is getting full

[Derek Broughton]

Alexandra Zaharia wrote:

> 2009/10/10 Graham Watkins <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>:
>> Didar Hossain wrote:
>>> Time to check for the largest disk eating directories -
>>>
>>> sudo du -sh /var/*
>>>
>>> That should tell you where to start looking for.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Didar
>>>
>>>
>> Good call.  This gives me the following output.
>>
>> 3.3G    /var/backup
>> 4.3M    /var/backups

>> /var/backup seems to be taking up most of the space.  It contains:
>>
>> 2009-09-26_10.27.20.524996.graham-desktop.ful
>>
>> This, I think, is an sbackup file.  I have no idea what it is doing
>> there as it isn't where backup files are supposed to be saved.  As I am
>> now making other arrangements for backups,  I think I can safely delete
>> it.  Unless anybody out there can think of a good reason why I
>> shouldn't, I shall move it elsewhere and see what happens.  If nothing
>> happens, I shall delete it.
> 
> I can find no reference for 'timestamp.user-desktop.full' files in
> /var/backups.

/var/backups (a system directory from the base-files package) is not at all 
the same as /var/backup (probably created by sbackup).  

-- 
derek