Re: Hibernate filled my /root

[Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com>]

On 5/26/22 08:15, IL Ka wrote:

30 GB of logs, wow. Do you use logrotate?

    No, not that I am aware of.

I do find that the package logrotate is installed, but I did not install it "on purpose"

reading the Debian Wiki I find info on how to configure, but I did not intentionally touch it.

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 6:14 PM Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> wrote:

/root partition was 40 GB, about 15 GB was free
/swap 20 GB, unused

hibernate

restart failed

Using Gparted I found /root was full
resized /root to 50 GB
boots properly now

/var/log now contains 29.3 GB
/var/log/syslog 10.0 GB
/var/log/kern.log 10.0 GB
/var/log/syslog.1 4.1 GB
/var/log/kern.log.1 4.0 GB

    I have no clue why this happened
    how do I clean this up and prevent it from happening again?

    PS: I rarely use Hibernate ... can't remember when I used it last,
if ever