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[Prince]

Is this anything to worry about:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.9G 2.9G 862M 78% /usr

Is there anything I can manually delete in there, like temp files?

thanks

[Jakiao]

What I do when I can't get a larger hard drive, and partitions are filling up, is this:

I find any extraneous files that can be moved in groups. Mainly, logs, databases, etc. I move them to a large hard drive and setup a symbolic link. Let me use the example: /var is filling up and /usr has more space.

mv /var/lib/mysql /usr/mysql
mv /var/log /usr/log
ln -s /usr/mysql /var/lib/mysql
ln -s /usr/log /var/log

That would make it so that /var/log -> /usr/log and same for mySQL. That tends to save me in times like that. So see if there is anything on /usr that you can move to a larger hard drive.

[xerophyte]

You might wanna tell us about your OS and the service , you are running on the server.

[Prince]

Linux with WHM/CPanel

[Steven]

du -h -s /usr/*

and paste the result here

[Prince]

root@zeus [~]# du -h -s /usr/*

12k /usr/aquota.user
107M /usr/bin
4.0k /usr/dict
104k /usr/doc
8.0k /usr/etc
8.0k /usr/games
8.8M /usr/i386-glibc21-linux
38M /usr/include
80M /usr/java
3.3M /usr/kerberos
396M /usr/lib
744k /usr/libexec
1.6G /usr/local
52k /usr/lost+found
14M /usr/man
28k /usr/quota.user
27M /usr/sbin
596M /usr/share
36M /usr/src
0 /usr/tmp
0 /usr/usr
29M /usr/X11R6

[Jakiao]

Do you have any larger hard partitions? If so, you could move a few things to it and do the linking process.

[phpdeveloper]

I bet you have very large log files in /usr/local/apache/domlogs directory.
Check if it's true, and to prevent this, in WHM go to Tweak Settings and check the box 'Delete each domain's access logs after stats run', then Save. Next day you should see that there's more space left.

[Steven]

You could possibly link /usr/local to /home. also check apache logs

[Jakiao]

Linuxguy, I wouldn't dare move /usr/local. Reason being is that you could screw up and screw the whole system.

[edit in: a lot of system binaries are in /usr/local, moving /usr/local makes them inaccessable and could kill your connection and/or take the server down because they are unavailable. That would severely screw your system.]

If you have a larger partition, you can do this:

[edit in: I had meant partition and not hard drive]

mv /usr/local/apache /partition/apache
ln -s /partition/apache /usr/local/apache

Or you can gzip all of the log files and start from scratch.

cd /usr/local/apache/logs
tar cfv /partition/apache_logs.tar ./*
gzip /partition/apache_logs.tar

--or--

bzip2 --compress /partition/apache_logs.tar

Just do not move core system directories, that would reak havok on your system.

[Prince]

Originally posted by phpdeveloper
I bet you have very large log files in /usr/local/apache/domlogs directory.
Check if it's true, and to prevent this, in WHM go to Tweak Settings and check the box 'Delete each domain's access logs after stats run', then Save. Next day you should see that there's more space left.

Did this, and I just noticed a huge drop on my server load!

thanks

[Prince]

Originally posted by phpdeveloper
I bet you have very large log files in /usr/local/apache/domlogs directory.
Check if it's true, and to prevent this, in WHM go to Tweak Settings and check the box 'Delete each domain's access logs after stats run', then Save. Next day you should see that there's more space left.

you're were correct!

here are the drive stats today:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.9G 1.9G 1.8G 51% /usr

and this was yesterday before your recommended change:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.9G 2.9G 862M 78% /usr

[phpdeveloper]

Glad it worked