[GLLUG] rootfs is filling up

[STeve Andre']

If a log file is growing quickly, it's trying to tell you something.
If it's a flat file, tail it out and start looking at it.

Hopefully the messages it has are useful.  If they're cryptic,
post a tail -50 or something.

--STeve Andre'

On 01/17/12 00:41, Taylor Burke wrote:
> 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?
>>>