VB eating up my drive space - help

[VirtueTech]

Hello everyone,

Here is my drive space:
/dev/da1s1e 34144629 22823305 8589754 73% /home

4 hours later:
/dev/da1s1e 34144629 30690096 722963 98% /home

How can this be? Why is this vb taking up so much space on my drive. Please help.

[eva2000]

could it be your site's log files ?

[WebStyles]

Yeah, if mySQL's logging functions are enabled, that can eat drive space on a large site really quickly. :)

[eva2000]

hmmm.. how do you check if mysql's logging functions are enabled ?

[werehere]

It is one of Mysql's variables, and mine was turned on for about a day when I first installed this and it ate up almost a gig, and the server couldnt even open it anymore. Needless to say, make sure that variable is set to no! :)

[werehere]

I thought I would add one more thought as well.

If the Mysql logging is turned on it can make things very slow on a trafficked site as well, so there is another reason to make sure it is turned off.

If it is not that, then I have no idea what would take up the space. Can you look and actually see how much space the vb database is taking up through telnet for us?

That would be a definete quick way to find out exactely if the space was indeed related to the database.