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Yannick_Vranck1's avatar
Yannick_Vranck1
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May 19, 2017

Partition almost full

Hello,

I have the following alarm. 

011d0004:3: Disk partition /var has only 18% free

I have done the following command to check what is eating the diskspace: find /var -xdev -type f -exec du {} \; | sort -rn | head -20

epsec-1.0.0-457.0.iso mac_f5vpn.pkg mac_edgesvpn.pkg.zip linux_f5vpn.tgz

I was wondering if i can delete the mac_f5vpn.pkg and .tgz files since we will never use SSL vpn on thix box. Or am i missing something, are there other directories i can delete.

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  • jaikumar_f5's avatar
    jaikumar_f5
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    May 19, 2017

    The zip and the tgz are extensions of TAR archive. Deleting that would not have any impact. Also if you note, its directory is on var. The other is a iso file you can save it.

     

  • Leonardo_Souza's avatar
    Leonardo_Souza
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    May 19, 2017

    I would check other folders before.

    Do the following command so you can understand what folders is in the /var logical volume:

    df -h

    As you can see /var/log for example, is a different logical volume than /var.

    You can delete files in these folders:

    /var/core - this folder contains core files generated that can be used for troubleshooting, you can delete if you dont need the files.

    /var/local/scf and /var/local/ucs - These folders contains backups files, that you should have already a copy out of the box.

    These are normally the reasons for /var full. If they don't have any file there, is better you find out what is causing that as that is not normal.