var drive

[Paul Howarth]

Kevin wrote:
> I am having some partition problems and I'm not sure what the cause
> is. When I check the "properties" of the /var folder through the file
> browser it tells me there's 123MB in use and 21MB free of disc space.
> It says it is using volume /var (which is a partition of my hard
> drive.) I know I made the var partition bigger than that so I checked
> my resource manager and it says that the /var drive is 1.8GB out of
> 1.9GB in use. This would account for the approximately 21MB of free
> disc space, but where did the 1.7 or so GB of information come from?
> 
> The problem is I have 1.7 GB of disc space on my /var partition not
> accounted for and I am not sure how I clean it off. Could programs
> have been installed there and I just can't find them? I have no clue
> how to fix this problem and it's making it impossible to download and
> install updates on my computer.
> 
> Help would be greatly appreciated!

How about posting the actual output of "df -h", "fdisk -l", and 
"vgdisplay -v"?

Do you periodically run "yum clean packages"?

Paul.