Opps corrected! #1 cause of my problems is bad eyes!
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: System warning that "/var" is almost full Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:35:18 +1000 Esteban L <este...@little-beak.com> writes: > > From command line: /var# du -h --max-depth=1 > > 1.8G ./lib > 4.0K ./local > 2.7M ./tmp > 16K ./lost+found > 44K ./snap > 6.3G ./cache > 4.0K ./opt > 56K ./spool > 4.0K ./mail > 8.2M ./backups > 139M ./log > 8.2G . > > So, my backups seems to be causing the main issue, followed closely > by > the cache. I don't know whether you have different output, but by my reading, ‘backups’ (8.2MiB) is significantly smaller than ‘lib’ (1.8GiB) which is smaller again than ‘cache’ (6.3GiB). You can see them sorted by size with: $ du --max-depth=1 /var | sort --numeric-sort The ‘-h’ (‘--human-readable’) is useful as its name implies; but it has the disadvantage of being difficult to visually compare between lines. Better to use absolute numbers if you want to compare accurately.
