Request for explanation of error message

Bret Busby bret.busby at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 20:28:21 UTC 2019


On 28/07/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/07/2019, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:26:41PM +0200, Oliver Grawert 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
>> These are the directory sizes, while logrotate can compress old ones
>> there
>> is not
>> a good reason for Gb of log messages.
>
> In /var/log/lightdm , is
> x-0.log
> size: 48.2GB
>
>


Can and should I delete that file?

Years ago,  a partition size of 20GB for / was regarded as quite
adequate, and, this file, alone, takes more space than the rest of the
content of the / partition.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

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