Root filesystem full: /var/log > 1.8 GB
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 21:06:03 UTC 2008
2008/10/13 Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>:
> The logs get rotated periodically. Old logs are compressed, so you can
> do:
>
> cd /var/log
> ls -l *.gz
>
Thanks. After going through the ls manpage I modified that to "ls -lS
*.gz" to order them by size.
> and see how much space the old logs take up. You can delete these files
> safely with "rm". You can see the total space taken by all the logs by
> running:
>
> sudo du -s
Thanks, Smoot!
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