/var is at 98%

[lakeRat]

I've been watching my service status for a few days and the sda2 (/var) disk/partition has been climbing steadily. It's now at 98%, and was at 91% yesterday afternoon. Everything else in service status is fine.

So, what happens next? I don't actually even know what the /var disk/partition is even for, or why it is maxed out. I don't have a clue what may happen if 100% is exceeded.

The problem is on astro.

Someone care to explain what /var is for?

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by lakeRat

I've been watching my service status for a few days and the sda2 (/var) disk/partition has been climbing steadily. It's now at 98%, and was at 91% yesterday afternoon. Everything else in service status is fine.

So, what happens next? I don't actually even know what the /var disk/partition is even for, or why it is maxed out. I don't have a clue what may happen if 100% is exceeded.

The problem is on astro.

Someone care to explain what /var is for?

/var "Contains variable data like system logging files, mail and printer spool directories, and transient and temporary files.".

If it gets full some tasks in the system will fail, and/or the server may crash.
I suggest you contact HG support and ask them to take care of it. They can just delete some unnecessary files.

We're on this.

There's actually enough room currently where it's no worries, but I'm going to go ahead and clean it up to take care of the warning.

[lakeRat]

Now down to 38% - Thanks.