[NTLUG:Discuss] /var out of space....help please

[./aal]

Mandrake7.1
K6III-400
192MB
ALI AladinV

I have a strange problem...
I am getting numerous errors about /var/(something) being out of space
I can ls as any user and see plenty of space[250MB left on that part.]

I have looked on deja.com and MDK support histories to no avail
I am getting strange errors from logrotate:
/var/log/various_logs_.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz...... on and on : file not found

(10-16-2000)
df:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             988M  238M  700M  25% /
/dev/hda1              91M   10M   76M  12% /boot
/dev/hda7             1.0G  740M  242M  75% /home
/dev/hda8             2.9G  2.4G  297M  89% /usr
/dev/hda9             3.3G  2.7G  511M  84% /opt
/dev/hda10            494M  9.2M  459M   2% /tmp
/dev/hda11            380M  258M  102M  72% /var
/dev/hdb5             1.6G  1.4G  186M  88% /hdb/usr
/dev/hdb6             1.4G  1.0G  318M  77% /hdb/opt
/dev/hdb8             213M  129M   73M  64% /hdb/home
/dev/hdd1             2.9G  1.3G  1.5G  47% /hdd

and if I try 'updatedb'...
/usr/bin/updatedb: line 29: 25351 Segmentation fault      slocate $FROM
$VERBOSE -l $SECURITY -d $DATABASE -f "$FSEXCLUDE" -e "$EXCLUDE"


(10-16-2000)
df:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             988M  238M  700M  25% /
/dev/hda1              91M   10M   76M  12% /boot
/dev/hda7             1.0G  737M  245M  75% /home
/dev/hda8             2.9G  2.4G  297M  89% /usr
/dev/hda9             3.3G  2.7G  514M  84% /opt
/dev/hda10            494M  381k  468M   0% /tmp
/dev/hda11            380M  370M     0 100% /var
/dev/hdb5             1.6G  1.4G  186M  88% /hdb/usr
/dev/hdb6             1.4G  1.0G  318M  77% /hdb/opt
/dev/hdb8             213M  129M   73M  64% /hdb/home
/dev/hdd1             2.9G  1.8G 1005M  64% /hdd  

I am at a loss
what has happened?


thank you
./aal