/var folder taking too much space

V3King

• December 24, 2016 01:00

Hello, I am having issues with my server because of storage running out and found that /var is taking almost 14GB. var/log is taking around 3GB and var/lib is taking around 6GB. Could someone please help me how to clean it up? Thanks in advance.

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  SysSachin

  • December 24, 2016 09:48

  Hello, First you have to check which exact log file taking space.Also, check which file/directory taking space under /var/lib using the command "du -sch *" Please check and update here with file/directory name so that I can assist you.

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  V3King

  • December 24, 2016 09:59

  Hello, First, you have to check which exact log file taking space.Also, check which file/directory taking space under /var/lib using the command "du -sch *" Please check and update here with file/directory name so that I can assist you.

  
  Hello, Thank you so much for the quick response. I used the command you provided and here is the output for both var/log and var/lib: Output of var/log:
  4.0K audit 160K background 172K bandwidth 8.0K boot.log 775M btmp 760M btmp-20161201 298M chkservd.log 12K ConsoleKit 812K cron 8.9M cron-20161127 8.9M cron-20161204 9.4M cron-20161211 9.9M cron-20161218 744K dcpumon 24K dmesg 24K dmesg.old 192K dracut.log 30M exim_mainlog 3.6M exim_mainlog-20161127.gz 3.3M exim_mainlog-20161204.gz 3.2M exim_mainlog-20161211.gz 3.3M exim_mainlog-20161218.gz 0 exim_paniclog 4.0K exim_paniclog-20161127.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20161204.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20161211.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20161218.gz 308K exim_rejectlog 12K exim_rejectlog-20161127.gz 8.0K exim_rejectlog-20161204.gz 20K exim_rejectlog-20161211.gz 16K exim_rejectlog-20161218.gz 12K lastlog 420K maillog 18M maillog-20161127 16M maillog-20161204 16M maillog-20161211 15M maillog-20161218 5.1M messages 45M messages-20161127 49M messages-20161204 54M messages-20161211 64M messages-20161218 4.0K ntpstats 32K prelink 17M sa 11M secure 104M secure-20161127 114M secure-20161204 117M secure-20161211 143M secure-20161218 0 spooler 0 spooler-20161127 0 spooler-20161204 0 spooler-20161211 0 spooler-20161218 4.2M ul_load_stats 28K wtmp 4.0K xferlog.offset 4.0K xferlog.offsetftpsep 4.0K yum.log 2.7G total
  Output for var/lib:
  20K alternatives 20K authconfig 8.0K dbus 8.0K dhclient 16K dovecot 4.0K fprint 4.0K games 4.0K logrotate.status 4.0K misc 24M mlocate 5.6G mysql 8.0K ntp 8.0K plymouth 28K polkit-1 12K prelink 4.0K random-seed 132K readahead 127M rpm 4.0K rsyslog 6.0M spamassassin 12K stateless 8.0K udev 18M yum 5.7G total
  

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  SysSachin

  • December 24, 2016 11:52

  Thanks for the update. It's seems that your mysql directory is using 5.6GB disk space on your server. You can remove old logs from your /var/log directory or you can move your mysql directory to other partition to make free space on /var partition If you want to move your mysql directory to any other partition then you can try with following steps. You can symlinking the old /var/lib/mysql to the new location
  ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql
  First make a full mysqldump file
  mysqldump --all-databases | gzip > /home/alldatabases.sql.gz
  Uncheck monitor in WHM > Service Manager for Mysql and save the area and stop mysql service. Make the directory for MySQL in /home, move it and symlink it:
  mkdir /home/var_mysql mv /var/lib/mysql /home/var_mysql chown -R mysql:mysql /home/var_mysql/mysql ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start
  Re-check monitor in WHM > Service Manager for MySQL and save the area If anything goes wrong, you have the full mysqldump backup.

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  V3King

  • December 25, 2016 16:34

  Thanks for the update. It's seems that your mysql directory is using 5.6GB disk space on your server. You can remove old logs from your /var/log directory or you can move your mysql directory to other partition to make free space on /var partition If you want to move your mysql directory to any other partition then you can try with following steps. You can symlinking the old /var/lib/mysql to the new location
  ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql
  First make a full mysqldump file
  mysqldump --all-databases | gzip > /home/alldatabases.sql.gz
  Uncheck monitor in WHM > Service Manager for Mysql and save the area and stop mysql service. Make the directory for MySQL in /home, move it and symlink it:
  mkdir /home/var_mysql mv /var/lib/mysql /home/var_mysql chown -R mysql:mysql /home/var_mysql/mysql ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start
  Re-check monitor in WHM > Service Manager for MySQL and save the area If anything goes wrong, you have the full mysqldump backup.

  
  Can you please tell me how to clean up logs from var/log folder? It would be a great help.

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  ChrisI

  • December 27, 2016 19:59

  Hello! cPanel logs are managed through the cPanel Log Rotation Configuration interface. cPanel Log Rotation Configuration - Documentation - cPanel Documentation You can also manage the size threshold for those under Tweak Settings. Tweak Settings - Stats and Logs - Documentation - cPanel Documentation For logs that aren't managed there, you will likely need to clear those out or remove them manually. This is also a good page for a reference on that as well. How to Clean Unmanaged Log Files - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation

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