My serverv hard disk the '/' partition is at 100% capacity and as all of other partitions are minimal in nature, I will need to remove any large logs/files or archive them to clear room in '/'. I list the contents of /var(It appears that the largest directory mounted on '/' is '/var')
[root@ensim var]# ls
account appliance db gdm lock mailman opt spool tux yp
adm cache empty lib log named preserve tmp usage zope
analog-5.32 crash ftp local mail nis run tomcat4 www
I also list the content of log
[root@ensim var]# cd log
[root@ensim log]# ls
appliance cron.3 ksyms.4 messages rpmpkgs.3 spooler.2 wpchkquota.log
boot.log cron.4 ksyms.5 messages.1 rpmpkgs.4 spooler.3 wtmp
boot.log.1 cups ksyms.6 messages.2 samba spooler.4 wtmp.1
boot.log.2 dmesg lastlog messages.3 scrollkeeper.log squid xferlog
boot.log.3 ensim mail messages.4 secure tmp xferlog.1
boot.log.4 gdm maillog mysqld.log secure.1 up2date xferlog.2
clamav httpd maillog.1 mysqld.log.4 secure.2 up2date.1 xferlog.3
conf ksyms.0 maillog.2 pgsql secure.3 up2date.2 xferlog.4
cron ksyms.1 maillog.3 rpmpkgs secure.4 up2date.3 xferlog.5
cron.1 ksyms.2 maillog.4 rpmpkgs.1 spooler up2date.4 yum.ensim.log
cron.2 ksyms.3 mailman rpmpkgs.2 spooler.1 vbox zope
and
[root@ensim log]# du -sh ./*
4.0M ./appliance
8.0K ./boot.log
4.0K ./boot.log.1
4.0K ./boot.log.2
4.0K ./boot.log.3
0 ./boot.log.4
472K ./clamav
60K ./conf
28K ./cron
372K ./cron.1
252K ./cron.2
316K ./cron.3
0 ./cron.4
24K ./cups
12K ./dmesg
84K ./ensim
4.0K ./gdm
876K ./httpd
84K ./ksyms.0
84K ./ksyms.1
84K ./ksyms.2
84K ./ksyms.3
84K ./ksyms.4
84K ./ksyms.5
84K ./ksyms.6
60K ./lastlog
4.0K ./mail
19M ./maillog
7.1G ./maillog.1
179M ./maillog.2
210M ./maillog.3
0 ./maillog.4
4.0K ./mailman
508K ./messages
4.3M ./messages.1
1.6M ./messages.2
19M ./messages.3
0 ./messages.4
4.0K ./mysqld.log
0 ./mysqld.log.4
0 ./pgsql
32K ./rpmpkgs
32K ./rpmpkgs.1
32K ./rpmpkgs.2
32K ./rpmpkgs.3
32K ./rpmpkgs.4
4.0K ./samba
4.0K ./scrollkeeper.log
104K ./secure
1.5M ./secure.1
1.2M ./secure.2
2.3M ./secure.3
0 ./secure.4
0 ./spooler
0 ./spooler.1
0 ./spooler.2
0 ./spooler.3
0 ./spooler.4
4.0K ./squid
24G ./tmp
0 ./up2date
0 ./up2date.1
0 ./up2date.2
0 ./up2date.3
0 ./up2date.4
4.0K ./vbox
4.0K ./wpchkquota.log
68K ./wtmp
96K ./wtmp.1
0 ./xferlog
4.0K ./xferlog.1
4.0K ./xferlog.2
128K ./xferlog.3
4.0K ./xferlog.4
4.0K ./xferlog.5
0 ./yum.ensim.log
0 ./zope
and
[root@ensim log]# du -sh *
4.0M appliance
8.0K boot.log
4.0K boot.log.1
4.0K boot.log.2
4.0K boot.log.3
0 boot.log.4
472K clamav
60K conf
28K cron
372K cron.1
252K cron.2
316K cron.3
0 cron.4
24K cups
12K dmesg
84K ensim
4.0K gdm
876K httpd
84K ksyms.0
84K ksyms.1
84K ksyms.2
84K ksyms.3
84K ksyms.4
84K ksyms.5
84K ksyms.6
60K lastlog
4.0K mail
19M maillog
7.1G maillog.1
179M maillog.2
210M maillog.3
0 maillog.4
4.0K mailman
508K messages
4.3M messages.1
1.6M messages.2
19M messages.3
0 messages.4
4.0K mysqld.log
0 mysqld.log.4
0 pgsql
32K rpmpkgs
32K rpmpkgs.1
32K rpmpkgs.2
32K rpmpkgs.3
32K rpmpkgs.4
4.0K samba
4.0K scrollkeeper.log
108K secure
1.5M secure.1
1.2M secure.2
2.3M secure.3
0 secure.4
0 spooler
0 spooler.1
0 spooler.2
0 spooler.3
0 spooler.4
4.0K squid
24G tmp
0 up2date
0 up2date.1
0 up2date.2
0 up2date.3
0 up2date.4
4.0K vbox
4.0K wpchkquota.log
68K wtmp
96K wtmp.1
0 xferlog
4.0K xferlog.1
4.0K xferlog.2
128K xferlog.3
4.0K xferlog.4
4.0K xferlog.5
0 yum.ensim.log
0 zope
what content are not useful and can be removed?