[vox-tech] size of /var

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us
Tue Jan 9 00:02:48 PST 2007


Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
> 
> 
>>For those of you with Debian based systems with /var on its own partition,
>>how much space did you allocate for /var?
> 
> 
> linuxmafia:~# du -hs /var
> 1.8G    /var
> linuxmafia:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5             895M  175M  673M  21% /
> tmpfs                 126M     0  126M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1              90M  4.3M   81M   5% /boot
> /dev/sdb1             895M  782M   66M  93% /home
> /dev/sdb5             268M  240K  254M   1% /tmp
> /dev/sdb8             2.8G  764M  1.9G  29% /usr
> /dev/sda9             4.6G  1.3G  3.1G  30% /usr/local
> /dev/sdb7             1.8G  1.5G  199M  89% /var
> /dev/sda8             895M  296M  552M  35% /var/log
> 
> 
> Pretty cramped.  But then, it's a 1998 server with the original pair of
> hard drives.

Hmm.  I get along with somewhat less, though I have to remember
to aptitude clean occasionally.

/dev/hda6             751M   99M  612M  14% /var

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