sudden storage space loss in /var/named

[Peter_R]

Hello i just noticed that my 20GB partition is 97% full ....

i just noticed that
/var/named shows 92% Capacity (17.8 G)

can someone help me !? what caused that space loss?
Site is www is only 1.7 G used

i have found that in var this folder ate most of my space
/var/lib - 13G

What is stored in that folder? Please help how can i restore that space?

when i enter
du -sh *

i see
26M asl
16M cache
8.0K db
154M drweb
8.0K empty
4.0K games
13G lib
4.0K local
84K lock
588M log
16K lost+found
0 mail
du: mount point `named/chroot/var/named' already traversed
156K named
4.0K nis
4.0K opt
8.0K parallels
4.0K preserve
7.7M qmail
712K run
292K spool
8.0K tmp
1.7G www
4.0K yp

Please Help.

 

[IgorG]

What about

du -sh *

inside /var/lib ?

I suppose that there are huge database dumps in /var/lib/mysql

 

[Peter_R]

Thank you for your reply

i learned to use that command "du"a bit more and i found out that most of my space was lost by plesk backups , i remember deleting them in plesk panel but even though it was still on trhe hard drive... so i removed them manually..
space restored

thanks