solution:Re: root partition full, what files / folders can I delete

[robert rottermann]

Thanks to all off you giving me valuable hints.
And yes, the fail2ban I should have googled myself.

what I did to get rid of that huge fail2ban database:
- stopped the fail2ban service
- renamed the database /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3
- restarted fail2ban
- deleted the backup

All seems well..

robert


On 17.02.22 22:46, Colin Law wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:40, robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
>> root at susanne /home # ll /var/lib/fail2ban/ -h
>> total 8.6G
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 22:28 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 69 root root 4.0K Mar  6  2020 ../
>> -rw-------  1 root root 8.6G Feb 17 22:28 fail2ban.sqlite3
>>
>>
>> can I somehow restart/reinit  fail2ban so that this file is reset?
> Google can be very helpful in such situations.  I think your fail2ban
> may be misconfigured, my database is 300k.  Possibly this will help
> https://serverfault.com/questions/1002315/fail2bans-database-is-too-large-over-500mb-how-do-i-get-it-to-a-reasonable-s
>
>
> Colin
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