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On Friday 12 June 2009, 12:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> The original question was "how big should /var be?" and the correct |
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> answer to that question is "mu" (google it) |
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> If we had the output of "df -h" and "du -sh /var/*" plus a description |
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> of what the machine actually does, some general advice could be given |
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> to the OP. As it stands with the information given, the only useful |
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> answer is "you'll have to work that out yourself" which is what I said |
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> right back at the beginning. |
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The OP might be a newbie with little or no idea of how things work in a |
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mailing list like this. Instead of the "you'll have to work that out |
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yourself" answer, which is a correct answer strictly speaking, but not |
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very useful to the OP, one could have asked "can you provide more |
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information on this and that, so people can help you better? And please, |
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in the future, remember that the more information you provide, the |
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better answer you are likely to get." (which, btw, is what you did |
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anyway in later replies). That would be a more useful answer imho, |
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because it will educate (or try to educate) the OP a little more, which |
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hopefully will result in him asking questions in a better way in the |
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future. |
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Just my 2c. |
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