Request for explanation of error message

[Bret Busby]

On 28/07/2019, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 28.07.2019, 03:17 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>
>> In looking at folders in / , I find
>> /var is 81.5GB
>>
>> /var/log is 78.9GB
>>
>> /var/log/lightdm is 48.3GB
>>
>> /var/log/journal is 1.5GB
>>
>> and
>>
>> Xorg.0.log.old is 29.1GB (can I delete that?)
>
> yes, it will be re-created on next Xorg startup
>
>>
>> Should that lightdm thing really be that big?
>
> no, it should definitely not ...
>
> do you have logrotate installed (this is typically in every default
> ubuntu install and makes sure to compress logs and rotate them so not
> too much space gets used up in /var/log)
>
> check with:
>
> dpkg -l | grep logrotate
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>

"
:~$ dpkg -l | grep logrotate
ii  logrotate                                     3.11.0-0.1ubuntu1
                       amd64        Log rotation utility
"


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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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