[GLLUG] rootfs is filling up

[Taylor Burke]

This is a laptop, which is why I'm really, REALLY confused as to why
root keeps filling up so quickly. slim.log seems to be the culprit for
now, so I've disabled logging (it's a login manager, I don't think
it's necessary!) to alleviate the issue. If something else comes up
I'll let you guys know. Thanks for the help, Chick :)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could sort the list of files in /var/log by size (ls -aoS, or -aorS if
> you want the largest ones last) and see what's filling up the largest logs.
>  It might be the same error message over and over, which would help diagnose
> the problem.
>
> I'm not an expert on log files.  Are you using this PC (these PCs) as a
> server?  If your server is getting a lot of mail or spam, that might explain
> it.  A faulty configuration of some service might cause its log file to
> explode, too.
>
> If /var/log seems to be where all the space is being used, I don't think you
> need to post your package list for us.
>
>                               Chick
>
>
> On 01/16/2012 11:27 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so /var is taking up 4.1G, and it seems to be in /var/log. Dunno
>> why that happened, really. Where should I go from here?