Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 03:26:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:24:41PM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no?
> >
> > Well it was either the linking or have it continue to fill up the partition,
> > this was the only time I have ever had to deal with the file in the many
> > years I have been using GNU/Linux. I figure if I ever need to get some
> > information out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce
> > the error again.
>
> you can always recover the contents with cat /dev/null > oldlogfile
> and just wait for it to finish...
>
> ;-P
But why not just use logrotate?
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David Jardine
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