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/var getting full due to sar & mwa data files

 
Indrajit Bhagat
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/var getting full due to sar & mwa data files

Hi Experts,

 

Request to please suggest, what could be done to housekeeping the below max utilization file:

 

abcd:/var#find . -type f -xdev -print | xargs -e ll | sort -rn -k5 | head -n 10
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        853758720 Jun 20 00:00 ./sardata/20130619
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        403756728 Jun 20 11:21 ./sardata/20130620
-rw-r--r--   1 root       root       145455340 Jun 20 11:21 ./opt/perf/datafiles/logproc
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        107851007 Jun 19 00:00 ./sardata/20130618.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root       root       20859156 Jun 20 11:21 ./opt/perf/datafiles/logdev
-rw-------   1 sfmdb      users      16777216 May 15 18:37 ./opt/psb/db/pgsql/pg_xlog/0000000000000021
-rw-------   1 sfmdb      users      16777216 Jun 20 01:08 ./opt/psb/db/pgsql/pg_xlog/000000000000001F
-rw-------   1 sfmdb      users      16777216 Jun 18 01:05 ./opt/psb/db/pgsql/pg_xlog/0000000000000022
-rw-------   1 sfmdb      users      16777216 Apr 18 01:05 ./opt/psb/db/pgsql/pg_xlog/0000000000000020
-rw-r--r--   1 root       root       16490868 Jun 20 11:21 ./opt/perf/datafiles/logglob

 

Daily i am fed up with performing housekeeping this /var

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Dennis Handly
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: /var getting full due to sar & mwa data files

Create symlinks for those directories that contain large files and move them to a larger filesystem.

./sardata/
./opt/perf/datafiles/
 ./opt/psb/db/pgsql/pg_xlog/

 

>Daily I am fed up with performing housekeeping this /var

 

You haven't automated it?  :-)