var disk space

[bettajames]

Hi there i've noticed that my /var disk space is becoming critical. I see that the quarantine folders are stored on here and i'm hitting about 1.2 - 1.9GB per day. I've read that the quarantine is cleared down every 30 days but disk will be full before then. Not quite sure what i should do...
a) Manually clear some files out of the quarantine folder (this is what i'm doing at the moment - manually deleting some older days quarantine but i'm worried this will cause problems as they still seem to show on the Quarantine page on the web interface)
b) Can i change the period from 30 days for clearing old quarantine items?
c) Can i make the /var disk bigger?

Would appreciate some tips!

Regards
James Wilson

[shawniverson]

a) Doing this will put your database and filesystem out of sync temporarily, since MailScanner will think that messages are still present that are actually deleted.

b) Yes. Look in /var/www/html/mailscanner/conf.php

c. viewtopic.php?f=14&t=516

[bettajames]

Excellent thanks Shawn - i've changed the quarantine period to 10 days and thats sorted my problem. I think longer term i'll look at changing the disk size to give more space.

Regards
James