[Bug 115774] Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

[Elijah Lynn]

I just installed Xubuntu 11.10 fresh last night and then installed all
the updates. Today I got an error that I did not have enough free space
so I ran the disk usage analyzer and I have a syslog.1 and kern.log that
are both 7 GB each, not sure how this happened but it could really mess
things up for a noob who has no idea about this stuff. I am deleting the
logs and hopefully it doesn't happen again.

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Title:
  syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  These two log files recently grew to over 1 Gb each.  I only noticed
  when I booted up and X failed to start, giving a warming about not
  being able to write to /tmp.  I later discovered that this error was
  due to lack of partition space and that /var/log had become bloated.
  I deleted syslog.0 and kern.log.0 and all is well.  This bug may be
  related to Bug #71870.

  My kernel is 2.6.20-15-generic
  Version is Kubuntu 7.04
  My hard drive is partitioned thus:

  hda1 - WinXP (ntfs) - 10 Gb
  hda5 - windows user files (ntfs) - 30 Gb
  hda6 - / (ext3) - 7 Gb
  hda7 - swap - 2 Gb
  hda8 - user space (fat32) - 2 Gb
  hda9 - /home (ext3) - 25 Gb

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