Cleaning up /var

[Donald Thaler]

There is a subdirectory /var/appconfig/appmanager with a number of what looks like login entries i.e
'oracle-10..2.0.3.53-0' which have further subdirectories of desktop_apps/desktop_tools etc.

Can i delete these directories ?

[Rick Garland]

To see what are the biggest files;

cd /var
du -x -ka . | sort -nr | more

This will produce a list of files in ascending order by size. This can help you determine where to get the most impact of cleanup.

Can also have a look at /var/adm/syslog - are you trimming the syslog.log and mail.log files? If not these can become hugh.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

cleanup -c 1

Gets rid of patches that were superseded more than once. Saves a lot of space on /var

I'm not familiar with

/var/appconfig/appmanager

I can't advise on that. Oracle does not be default store anything important in /var unless you told it to.

SEP

[spex]

Hi Donald,

Those are CDE objects. Try moving them to a different location and see how CDE is affected.

PCS

[John Collier]

Rick,

A little off subject, but do you know if that would work on a Linux system (say RH or Fedora, for example) as well?

Also, will that list only files or is it also good for directories with many small files that add up to one big problem?

[Rick Garland]

The command will work on Linux as well. Double check the man pages for du to make sure of the options for listing files - although I believe it is still correct.