{"id":72,"date":"2008-04-02T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T05:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/varpreserve-directory\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T05:41:03","slug":"varpreserve-directory-vi-and-ex-temporary-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/varpreserve-directory-vi-and-ex-temporary-files\/","title":{"rendered":"\/var\/preserve Directory: Vi and Ex Temporary Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a page on an error today:<\/p>\n

Error, DISK_SPACE:\/var – hostname<\/em> – UNIX – EMAIL – 100% full, 0MB free, 722MB total<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did a quick ‘du’ on \/var filesystem and found out the culprit directory:<\/p>\n

# du -sk * | sort -rn | more
\n232013 preserve
\n222272 tmp
\n62607 sadm
\n58204 cfengine
\n44270 spool
\n40355 adm
\n510 cron
\n503 orca
\n343 apache<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

Apparently, \/var\/preserv is used a temporary place holder used to store vi or ex temporary data. So, doing a quick recursive listing (`ls -lR`) showed the date stamps of the files inside \/var\/preserve\/users.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0# ls -aslt | more
\ntotal 176126
\n4 drwxrwxrwt\u00a0 84 root\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1536 Dec 13 19:09 ..
\n2 drwx——\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 512 Nov 21 07:44 .
\n192 -rw——-\u00a0\u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 98304 Nov 21 07:44 Exaaa0000019883
\n64 -rw——-\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 32768 Oct 27 03:40 Exaaa0000028082
\n170624 -rw—=\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 87294772 Oct\u00a0 9 21:24 Exaaa0000013066
\n64 -rw——-\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 32768 Oct\u00a0 8 21:53 Exaaa0000015814
\n72 -rw——-\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user group\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6864 Sep 28\u00a0 2007 Exaaa0000026859<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One more ‘du’ to find out which one takes the most space, and I’ll start deleting there:<\/p>\n

# du -sk * | sort -rn| more
\n88061\u00a0\u00a0 user1
\n19338\u00a0\u00a0 user2
\n19225\u00a0\u00a0 user3
\n12653\u00a0\u00a0 user4
\n11881\u00a0\u00a0 user5
\n8685\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user6
\n7649\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 user7<\/p>\n

Surprisingly *grin*,\u00a0 user1<\/em> take the most space.. so it’s bye bye to those temporary files..<\/p>\n

#cd \/var\/preserve\/user1\/
\n# ls -last
\n# rm Exa*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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