how to clear VAR folder

[Vu_9]

Dear All,

the folder /var is full, i don't know what 's file . I can remove it, please help me!

Many thanks.

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can try several ways to do housekeeping on /var file system :

1. Cleanup the crash directory at /var/adm/crash. When the system having a problem (panic or rebooting by itself), the system usually create a crash dump information on this directory. You can cleanup the un-necessary info at this directory (check the timestamp).

2. Using 'cleanup' command for patch cleanup utility, check the man page for more detail :

# man cleanup

Example :

Preview:
#cleanup -p -c 2

Clean:
#cleanup -c 2

3. Using SAM to trim-out the log files :

SAM -> Routine Tasks -> System Log Files -> [Select a log file] -> Actions -> Trim

Check the thread below for your reference :

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=977812

Hope this information can help you.

Cheers,
AW

[RAC_1]

Be careful about what you remove.
du -kx /var | sort -n

will give ascending list by usage.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Use:

find /var -type f -exec ls -l {} \; |sort +5 -nb

To find the largest files. It may be unreaded mail in /var/spool/mail also.

[Muthukumar_5]

/var directory will contain log files, installed softwares.

You can get most directory using files as,

# du -k /var | sort -rnk1

You can delete all OLD* logs firstly as,

# find /var -name "OLD*" | xargs rm -f

You can found installed superseeded patches to be cleanup as,

# cleanup -p -c 2
# cleanup -c 2

to clean it up.

You can trim log files of all daemons as well.

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

If you have a similar machine with same level patches then you can remove /var/adm/sw/save/ PHCO_* details too.

hth.