[PLUG] Resolution: Disk is Full. How to Move /var?

[Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org>]

Thanks to all for the great thoughts and suggestions.   I finally took
Michael's and Fred's advice and found the disk-hogging culprit.  It was
Thunderbird's local copy of my __HUGE__ IMAP eMail collection.   I did a
little digging and found that Thunderbird keeps a local copy of all the
eMails so that they can be accessed off line.  Since I'm always on-line,
I reduced this local copy down to something reasonable (30 days) and
magically freed up 12 GBytes!


Also, thanks to Keith for the suggestion to move /var from a Live CD and
to Fred for his explanation of why the original softlink did not work.



On 10/15/2018 02:26 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> On 10/14/2018 06:31 PM, Rachel plays Linux wrote:
>> Doh, yes I meant du -sh rather than ls -sh
>
> +a bunch for this.  Find the root of the problem first, they worry
> about it.  It may just be some log rotate failed (as mentioned
> elsewhere).
>
> ----
> ### Here are the top 5 biggest dirs in var:
> $ sudo du -sc /var/* | sort -rn | head -n5
> 15201296    total
> 8479696    /var/lib
> 6066288    /var/cache
> 603984    /var/log
> 37424    /var/www
> ----
>
> Adjust -n5 as needed.
>
> But `du` has to scan the file system every run, so for exploring
> install and use `ncdu` which is (from the .deb):
> "Description-en: ncurses disk usage viewer
> "Ncdu is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use
> interface through famous du utility. It allows one to browse through
> the directories and show percentages of disk usage with ncurses library."
>
> That scans once then gives us an ncurses (console GUI) for exploring
> (and deleting):
> ----
> $ sudo ncdu /var
> ncdu 1.12 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help
> --- /var
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     8.1 GiB [##########] /lib
>     5.8 GiB [#######   ] /cache
>   589.8 MiB [          ] /log
>    36.5 MiB [          ] /www
>    11.3 MiB [          ] /backups
> ...
> ----
>
> Later,
> JP
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