Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
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On 01/20/07 18:24, David Jardine wrote:
> 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?
But it' so fun laughing at the person who tries to run
# cat /dev/null > oldlogfile
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