From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MF4Ul-0007rx-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ADC6E0573; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08961E0573 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so213127ewy.34 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:00:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=S0yBLsDFr86qqVd0sEI5xQBFp36mRCuOWQngTYyeHGY=; b=K0+DFpUIcqnym62Vw31d0s2XBlQCycNVG/qi61QZNF4b7IJh/iOHMTqRWR9welx+TR L6koHTdzqmv6yj4+AyTbnd2lC5cawlKGdOKFtYdOAnbpiRlfltXOsFbyAOEtha4C1X6H kyndx/LJa2Bhv9hTRWXJuhEJKcuH0odniiBJg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=VcpDJIYgGGCm8WkpoWXthhSaYDgNPxBQorB3Es+//M8fRBOERUN5IHWQ3s2mz1PFCN B7Uam1hULvcJECWrI8YGVW+fZeKumg78qUJxDI3ysN6LQvXqWlqMux0aVumEWAC95o20 scosKiENdJZhxhqJer9VnDJ9FmEhpnUrrMPVY= Received: by 10.210.69.13 with SMTP id r13mr694736eba.25.1244804425292; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm1105626eyx.13.2009.06.12.04.00.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:00:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on / Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:58:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A312AEC.50002@gmail.com> <4A323278.9080507@konstantinhansen.de> In-Reply-To: <4A323278.9080507@konstantinhansen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906121258.51161.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 042d2a2d-2a35-45cc-8ee0-c9c3471b83ce X-Archives-Hash: 0e1329a979e1078ebb00bbf6d7bf9b02 On Friday 12 June 2009 12:48:24 KH wrote: > bn schrieb: > > Isn't "do A if you are in situation X , because of Z" the right pattern? > > > > m. > > That's only if situation x is constant and absolutely known to the one > replying. But then it might not be of any use for somebody else. Most > likely there will not be a second person with the exact same situation x > around. > Also I learn a lot by following the way to the solution. Like give me > the formula and not the answer and next time I can search for everything > myself. The original question was "how big should /var be?" and the correct answer to that question is "mu" (google it) If we had the output of "df -h" and "du -sh /var/*" plus a description of what the machine actually does, some general advice could be given to the OP. As it stands with the information given, the only useful answer is "you'll have to work that out yourself" which is what I said right back at the beginning. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com