What can I delete from var

woodi2259 · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 35

I have my var directory on it's own partition which it has apparently filled up. Now nothing wants to run because it can't write to var. I'm not sure what in there is taking up 2 gigs but I have a feeling I can get rid of some of whats in there. So what can I get rid of so my system will run right again?

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

Everything in /var/tmp/portage.
Old big logfiles in /var/log

woodi2259 · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 35

Just was looking around more...looks like almost all the space is being taken up by some huge files in /var/lib/mysql/
all following the format leonardo-bin.0000* where * is a different number every time. Leonardo is my computers name...can I delete these files? Or will that break something

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

Those are the MySQL binary logs, which it needs (for example) in case of recovery. You should not remove those manually. Instead you should use MySQL commands for that and just in case always have some kind of backlog available.

For example, if you want to remove all the binary log entries except the ones which are created during last 20 hours, you would