Can't Log in file-system is full.

[the_Dude_abides]

I can't login due to my file-system being full. I found the main area with the large usage. Var/log is taking 99.5% of my var folder. On a full file-system scan Var/log is taking up 85% of disk use. File-system capacity is 36 gig. Temp is cleared after each boot.

What can I do to clean up any unnecessary files. I can only boot in safe mode and have limited navigation skills. To get scan results I booted a live-disc.

Opensuse 11.2 gnome 64 bit.

[dvhenry]

Have you booted from that liveCD and checked those log files?

[Knurpht]

After booting from a LiveCD, mount the root partition and

Post output of

ls -l /var/log

[robin_listas]

On 2010-11-25 08:06, the Dude abides wrote:
>
> I can't login due to my file-system being full. I found the main area
> with the large usage. Var/log is taking 99.5% of my var folder. On a
> full file-system scan Var/log is taking up 85% of disk use. File-system
> capacity is 36 gig. Temp is cleared after each boot.
>
> What can I do to clean up any unnecessary files.

Look which file is exceedingly big. There will be something been logged
there many times, thousands of times. Find out what and report. Post a
sample in paste.opensuse.org (not all). Or here if it is just a few lines.

After you do that, you can perhaps compress or delete - but we need to see
the sample first.

> Opensuse 11.2 gnome 64 bit.

Updates are current?


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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

[the_Dude_abides]

Thanks for the starting points:

linux@linux:~> ls -l /var/log
total 636
-rw-r----- 1 root root 61 2010-11-25 07:51 acpid
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 2010-07-05 11:20 apparmor
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-11-25 07:51 audit

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66941 2010-11-25 07:51 boot.kiwi

-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:40 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60030 2010-11-25 07:51 boot.msg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870 2010-11-25 07:51 boot.omsg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:50 config.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-11-25 07:51 ConsoleKit
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 2010-07-05 14:02 cups

-rw------- 1 root root 32000 2010-07-06 05:50 faillog
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:40 firewall
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 2010-11-25 07:51 gdm
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-07-05 13:44 krb5

-rw-r--r-- 1 root tty 292000 2010-11-25 07:51 lastlog

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-11-25 07:51 localmessages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 189 2010-11-25 07:51 mail
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:40 mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 root root 189 2010-11-25 07:51 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:40 mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 root root 17542 2010-11-25 07:54 messages

-rw-r----- 1 root root 7219 2010-11-25 07:51 NetworkManager
drwxr-x--- 2 news news 4096 2010-07-06 05:40 news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-11-25 07:51 nscd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:38 ntp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 176 2010-11-25 07:53 PackageKit
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12790 2010-11-25 07:53 pk_backend_zypp

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 339 2010-11-25 07:52 pm-powersave.log
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2010-07-05 14:15 samba
drwxr-x--- 2 root dialout 4096 2010-07-05 12:59 smpppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1180 2010-11-25 07:52 warn
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-11-25 07:51 wpa_supplicant.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root tty 8832 2010-11-25 08:00 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54113 2010-11-25 07:59 Xorg.0.log

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-07-05 13:30 YaST2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-05 22:24 zypp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2010-07-06 05:50 zypper.log


Edits should be most up to date, it was after the updates I had no room on the file-system. What's the best plan to proceed

[robin_listas]

On 2010-11-25 15:06, the Dude abides wrote:
>
> Thanks for the starting points:
>
> linux@linux:~> ls -l /var/log
> total 636

I don't see any big file here - you said that "/var/log is taking 99.5%".
It is not true.

Please investigate again and find the exact directory that has eaten the
space. Use mc.

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

[Viljo Mustonen]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2010-11-25 15:06, the Dude abides wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the starting points:
>>
>> linux@linux:~> ls -l /var/log
>> total 636
>
> I don't see any big file here - you said that "/var/log is taking 99.5%".
> It is not true.
>

Maybe big file is inside /var/log/"some directory"

> Please investigate again and find the exact directory that has eaten the
> space. Use mc.
>

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Viljo

[the_Dude_abides]

I'm not sure how to show the scan in a terminal without being in safemode and out of the live disk, but if I use the disk usage analyzer graphically, the information that is being outputted is illustrating those numbers. Is there something I'm missing with using disk usage analyzer?

[VampirD]

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try:

cd /var/
du -h | grep M

this could take some time, also try with grep G


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[robin_listas]

On 2010-11-25 18:06, the Dude abides wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how to show the scan in a terminal without being in
> safemode and out of the live disk,

Use mc.

> but if I use the disk usage analyzer
> graphically, the information that is being outputted is illustrating
> those numbers. Is there something I'm missing with using disk usage
> analyzer?

You haven't posted any information that indicates where the disk space is lost.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)