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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.

Last edited by froli (2009-03-05 02:03:49)


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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

froli
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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

froli
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....

ataraxia wrote:

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 logrotate

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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

froli
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Re: [SOLVED]My root partition always getting full....

ataraxia wrote:

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....

pointone wrote:
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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