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Hello,

I did nothing but Free space is decreasing, yesterday it was more 300MB but today it’s 250MB. Why? How to get back the free space?

Many thanks,

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lacaymuadong@gmail.com <lacaymuadong@gmail.com> [13-09-19 18:08]:

Hello,

I did nothing but Free space is decreasing, yesterday it was more 300MB but
today it's 250MB. Why? How to get back the free space?

Many thanks,

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Hi,

check, what is eating up the space.
In case of a idle system, one of the places to look is /var/log
and to check whether a debug feature of a daemon or the kernel
itsself is spitting a bunch of messages on a regul;ar basis
into one or more of the log files there.

HTH

Best regards,
mcc

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Hi MCC,

I’ve deleted /var/log folder and get back tons of free space.

Thank you very much :smiley:

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lacaymuadong@gmail.com <lacaymuadong@gmail.com> [13-09-20 15:12]:

Hi MCC,

I've deleted /var/log folder and get back tons of free space.

Thank you very much :smiley:

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NO, NO, NO!

DONT delete /var/log !!!
It is used by the system!!!

Create a new one!
Do (as root)

touch wtmp
chmod 664 wtmp
chown root:utmp wtmp

touch lastlog
chmod 644 wtmp
chown root:root lastlog

and reboot (fingers crossed) that your system will come back!

NEVER EVER BLINDLY DELETE SYSTEM FILES/FOLDER!

Check before act!

Your problem is *not* /var/log! It may be a daemon or kernel
configuration which pollutes the logs with blablabla....

May be a logrotate-application will also help!

Best regards,
mcc

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figure out what is writing into the logs and modify the program to not
write into the logs
or you will just be back to the same full disk

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ii read that as he deleted everything IN /var/log

yes never delete /var/log directory lol