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sylvarant

Member

Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 17

/var/log is 2.9 GB

Today I was amazed to find that my / partition had gone from 62% fullness
to 100% ?
turns out /var/log is 2.9 GB something that doesn't seem normal to me or at laist very suspicious can I just clear out this folder without hazard to my system or should I be careful ?

I have found both errors.log and everything.log are about 980 MB large ? I'm now looking for other possible culprits

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: /var/log is 2.9 GB

Once you know that your system is alright, install logrotate and it will keep the log files down to a reasonable size. The default is one month long logs. But, you need to find out what's creating these huge logs first. I suggest that you start looking through those and see what the problem is.