Why is /var so big?

Rob Rosenthal robrosenthal1 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 20 03:28:02 UTC 2005


After checking out another thread regarding disk space, I checked my 
disk usage and found that I had over 1000MB of stuff in /var.  Here is 
the output of "du -sh *" from /var:

[root at pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh *
4.0K    account
902M    cache
2.0M    clamav
4.0K    db
4.0K    dkms
8.0K    empty
8.0K    gdm
97M     lib
4.0K    local
20K     lock
3.3M    log
0       mail
8.0K    named
4.0K    nis
4.0K    opt
4.0K    preserve
172K    run
936K    spool
8.0K    state
3.3M    tmp
120K    webmin
1.2M    www
12K     yp

Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the heck is all 
this stuff?  What can I get rid of?




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