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Author Topic: How do I clean / free space used by disk or logs in linux server ?  (Read 5239 times)

Offline Noob

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How do I clean / free space used by disk or logs in linux server ?
« on: December 08, 2007, 06:17:43 AM »
Can anyone tell me which files are safe to delete in /var partition ?

I want to increase space as it seems it filled up by logs.
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Offline Ricky

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Re: How do I clean / free space used by disk or logs in linux server ?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2007, 06:52:03 PM »
usually biggest problem in logs are mysql logs if its a webserver.
You can find it at /var/lib/mysql , that is what I do most of the time. There are many other files but they are not much.. only matter of few MBS.. I never bothered myself to delete them but you can delete.
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Re: How do I clean / free space used by disk or logs in linux server ?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 02:06:10 AM »
Did you create a rule in your syslog tool for that application server ? Also consider enable compression to your logs while using logrotate feature.

Consider backing up those old logrotate archives to your backup media.
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