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#1 2009-03-04 23:15:28
- froli
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[SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Hello there, I have a big problem whit my little Acer Aspire One! I don't know why, but 2 days ago, my root partition got filled up. I don't have many apps installed and I only have openbox installed as WM. So it wasn't supposed to fill my 7GB root partition.
But like I said it got filled up and I didn't understand why, so I decided to enlarge it to 12GB yesterday night and today it's full again, even if I didn't installed anything, I only let rTorrent running all day (I don't know if it has something to do with this cause if I can remember, I was running rtorrent before it happens the first thime).
So I don't know what to do, that's why I need your so apreciate help guys!
**Forgot to tell that I have the 160GB HDD version of the Aspire One.
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#2 2009-03-04 23:33:16
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Are you using Ex4? That has happened a few times with me on Ext4. I'm not sure what the deal is.
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#3 2009-03-04 23:47:41
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
No I use EXT3
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#4 2009-03-05 00:04:45
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Really big logfiles in /var/log? (if /var/log is on your root)
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#5 2009-03-05 01:08:32
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Really big logfiles in /var/log? (if /var/log is on your root)
Yeah you got it! I just deleted them and it works, but what can I do to not have this problem anymore? Write a script in cron.weekly that would delete all log files in /var/log/ ?
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#6 2009-03-05 01:42:22
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
man logrotateM*cr*s*ft: Who needs quality when you have marketing?
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#7 2009-03-05 02:50:33
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Hopefully, you look at the big files and see what they actually say. Logfiles only get big fast if there's something complaining a lot.
Edit: There's already a job in cron.daily to roll over log files.
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#8 2009-03-05 12:55:42
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Logfiles only get big fast if there's something complaining a lot.
Yeah I know, but in this case, my laptop works verry well. Never had problem. Exept may be with rTorrent when I run it in tty.
Next time I will carefully read the log files to see if there's something going wrong.
Thanks for you help guys!
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#9 2009-03-05 13:49:11
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
man logrotate
Top tip, thank you!
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#10 2009-03-05 14:03:55
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....
Yeah, I'd watch those logfiles. The only time I remember my logfiles getting huge, it was because I was being attacked.
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