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| Posted by boxer, 10-21-2009, 07:30 AM |
| Hello,
I just got this email today, don't know how to remove unused space in that drive or what to do exacly, please help in advice.
Thanks
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| Posted by inspiron, 10-21-2009, 08:33 AM |
| Try to check the size of the error logs and access_logs on the server and try to empty it.
# cd /usr/local/apache/logs
# ls -sh error_logs
# ls -sh access_logs
check here if the size is in the gb for error_logs and access_logs then try to empty them.
# echo > error_logs
# echo > access_logs
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| Posted by Hosting24, 10-21-2009, 08:52 AM |
| Are you familiar with df command? It's really useful when you need to check which directories use most of space
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| Posted by barry[CoffeeSprout], 10-21-2009, 09:37 AM |
| from a shell execute:
sudo du -h -s /*
This will tell you the size of each folder, you can then go deeper as needed to find where the space is going.
For example on one of my machines this yields:
7.7M /bin
12M /boot
28K /dev
55M /etc
821M /home
261M /lib
18M /lib64
16K /lost+found
16K /Maildir
4.0K /media
4.0K /misc
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /net
29M /opt
2.1G /proc
34M /root
33M /sbin
20K /selinux
4.0K /srv
0 /sys
72K /tmp
1.5G /usr
202M /var
You can probably sort these if you want, like so:
sudo du -h -m -s /* | sort --numeric
This will list the directories in the order of size (mb), with the biggest folder at the bottom.
You can also tail this to only get a top 10 of sorts:
sudo du -h -m -s /* | sort --numeric | tail
18 /lib64
29 /opt
33 /sbin
34 /root
55 /etc
202 /var
261 /lib
821 /home
1493 /usr
2058 /proc
You can ignore /proc
Folders to watch are /home (usually where the user files and sites are stored), /var (contains logs), /tmp (contains temporary files)
/root is basically root's home folder
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| Posted by boxer, 10-21-2009, 11:06 PM |
| and now after echo the logs and error log
Thats what usefull Thanks Inspiron,
And Hosting 24 here the resualt for hd -f
It's look That Inspiron helps was really good...
Bvs[NL], here is my resualt
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| Posted by inversehost, 11-15-2009, 12:24 PM |
| A simple way to clean apache log
download Freeware client WinSCP
go to derectotry /usr/local/apache/logs
and delete manually
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| Posted by PCS-Chris, 11-15-2009, 01:46 PM |
| It's much better to clear logs. Delete them and you might end up causing yourself problems if they are not automatically created, or created with the wrong permissions.
The best thing to do is implement log rotation, so your logs are compressed, stored and then emptied.
Based on the message you recieved I'll assume this is a cPanel server. In which case cPanel can rotate logs for you automatically, just look for the option in WHM when logged in as root
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| Posted by inversehost, 11-15-2009, 03:06 PM |
| Hv faced this log issue when I used suphp. it consumes very large ammount of space.
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