out of space on /root

[SDA]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:17:11PM -0800, Bob wrote:

> I do not know much about Ubuntu but looking at the syslog the first 133 lines
> look like normal log entries.  The next 5 lines are garbage and is about 13kb
> long.
> 
> So my guess is that the log entry that would show the problem has been
> overlayed and I will never know what caused the problem.  I will just hope that
> it does not happen again.

Back a couple of months, Debian Sid has this problem - I resorted to running bleachbit every couple of days to prune the log files. It eventually got sorted in an upgrade later. So, perhaps same bug, since Ubuntu is usually pulled from Sid.