Re: var very full

David Laight <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
> Once you know what is taking up the space, you will have a better 
> idea of how to fix it and possibly prevent it from recurring.

Just remember that deleting a large log file won't recover the space
if the program still has it open - all it does is make the file
harder to locate.
Truncating the file will recover the space, and can be done easily using
    $ : >filename
from most shells.

	David

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