cPanel/WHM Server. /var is 100% full
cPanel/WHM Server. /var is 100% full
I know with a couple of my older installs and some datacenter custom installs. /var is put onto its own partition. Often this partition is not big enough and you sometimes find your logs fulling up the partition to 100% disk space. In /var are the logs, mysql databases and queued email.
What I found out that filled my /var partition so much where the mysql databases. Get enough clients on a cPanel/WHM server and that partition is quickly filled up.
The quickest and easiest way to do this is to move those mysql databases to a partition with lots of spare disk space This is normally found in /home. To do this you can type out the following commands
1) First we stop mysql:
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
2) Now we create the directory we are going to be moving the databases to:
# mkdir /home/var_mysql
3) Now its time to move the databases to the directory you just created:
# mv /var/lib/mysql /home/var_mysql
4) After the databases have finished copying, we need to make sure mysql has permission to access the files we just moved:
# chown -R mysql:mysql /home/var_mysql/mysql
5) Once the permissions are correct we need to make a symbolic link that links everything to the new file location:
# ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql
6) Thats about it. The only thing left to do now is startup mysql
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Everything should be working now and you should have a lot of spare space on your /var partition.
What I found out that filled my /var partition so much where the mysql databases. Get enough clients on a cPanel/WHM server and that partition is quickly filled up.
The quickest and easiest way to do this is to move those mysql databases to a partition with lots of spare disk space This is normally found in /home. To do this you can type out the following commands
1) First we stop mysql:
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
2) Now we create the directory we are going to be moving the databases to:
# mkdir /home/var_mysql
3) Now its time to move the databases to the directory you just created:
# mv /var/lib/mysql /home/var_mysql
4) After the databases have finished copying, we need to make sure mysql has permission to access the files we just moved:
# chown -R mysql:mysql /home/var_mysql/mysql
5) Once the permissions are correct we need to make a symbolic link that links everything to the new file location:
# ln -s /home/var_mysql/mysql /var/lib/mysql
6) Thats about it. The only thing left to do now is startup mysql
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Everything should be working now and you should have a lot of spare space on your /var partition.
