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My Disk Quota is unusually high. What can I do?

Original URL: http://help.hardhathosting.com/question.php/39

NOTE: This article pertains to accounts created before July 7th, 2003.

Unfortunately, the Sphera VDS software counts your log files as diskspace and therefore, it goes against your quota. However, there is a fix. By default, every MySQL action is logged in a file. This file is located here:

/usr/local/mysql/var/[YOURDOMAIN].log

To resolve this problem, login to your VDS via SSH and change directories by running this command:

cd /usr/local/mysql/var/

Then run the command:

ls -l

You will see a file named [YOURDOMAIN].log, replacing [YOURDOMAIN] with your domain name minus the tld. Your can then run the command:

rm [YOURDOMAIN].log

The file should now be removed. You can now run the command:

touch [YOURDOMAIN].log

This will re-create the log file. After this is accomplished, run the command:

vi /etc/my.cnf

About half way down you will see a line that just has "log". Comment out this line so that it look like this:

#log

Save the my.cnf file. Now login to your VDS control panel and restart your VDS. Your Disk Quota should be much less.

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