On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:02:21PM +0200, DaB. wrote: > Hello, > > today we have run a little bit short of disc-space on the /home-partition. I > searched for files with more than 500MB, hoping to find some old log-files > that I > could delete before I tell you to clean-up. What I found was upsetting: The > biggest log-file I found was 74GB(!) big and several others were also dozen > of > GB big. I deleted them all (a list can be found at [1]). > > Guys, what is so hard to check from time to time a big a logfile is and > truncate it? Do I really have to speed-up the re-installation of the quota- > system so that you all have 256MB per default and angry mails are send if you > use more?
Better, just setup logrotation, if you just rotate each day and keep a week of logs (or maybe more, depending on what it is), it won't grow out of hand. > So please: Use the weekend to log into your toolserver-account, check how > much > disc-space your use (use "du -hs your(sub)directoryhere" for that) and look > if > you can do some clean-up. If everything is ok and you still use 5GB of disc- > space: no problem, if you need it, take it. > > I will contact the top10-disc-users on Monday by email. > I had a quick look over the MMP's I have access to, and found some core-files, that is perhaps one you can scan for as well. I would say it is save to remove all core-files older then a month. Regards, Andre _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
