My /usr partition is full - what do i do?

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May 29th, 2004, 07:16 AM

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My /usr partition is full - what do i do?

Heya Folks,
I'm having a UNIX dedicated server runnin Red Hat with cPanel and WHM and whenever I try to add a new account or modify my accounts I get the following:

Quote:

The /usr, /, or /var partition on this server is running out of disk space. This WHM operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition.

Now my system admin's site is down for some time now (xione.net) and tho he said stuff will be cool for us dedicated server owners it's not really and I couldn't get him to fix it..

Now I've got no idea what kinda files are good to delete or not and how exactly I access the partition - I don't believe FTP could get me there as I tried login with my root user/pass but it gave me login invalid..

I got no idea of how to use Telnet but anyways when I try to connect to my server's IP it says

Quote:

Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect Failed

Anyways.. do u guys have any idea how I can access the partition and if I'll manage to what files are safe to delete (I don't mind killin' some of my logs - they are hugeeee, also any temporairy files u know about that are good to go).

ohh yeah the shell in my cpanel is also turned off and I got no idea how to turn it back on

thanks a lot,
- Ben Bond

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