February 6, 20224 yr root@Tower:~# df -h /var/log Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 384M 165M 220M 43% /var/log root@Tower:~# du -sh /var/log 7.2M /var/log prior to this I had to increase the size of the tmpfs ramdisk mount -o remount,size=384m /var/log tower-diagnostics-20220206-1433.zip Edited February 6, 20224 yr by raftrider Adding diagnostics
February 7, 20224 yr Author I found the culprit. I removed atop as it kept filling up the log partition. For some reason the process was still running and prevented the file to be deleted. ps aux|grep atop root 11425 0.0 0.0 3904 1904 pts/0 S+ 18:02 0:00 grep atop root 17720 0.1 0.0 23324 18648 ? S<L Jan13 68:26 /usr/bin/atop -a -R -w /var/log/atop/atop_20220113 600 kill -9 17720 df -h /var/log Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 384M 5.1M 379M 2% /var/log
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.