I have an Ubuntu Gnome installation on my 128GB SSD, with the /home
mounted on another harddisk. I keep getting alerts that my disk is full. When I open the Disk Usage utility, I see this:
When I try ls -la
in the terminal, I get this result:
ls -la
total 87744216
drwxrwxr-x 12 root syslog 4096 Nov 2 08:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 16 18:59 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 08:39 alternatives.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49237 Oct 26 17:28 alternatives.log.1
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4096 Nov 2 08:04 apache2
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Nov 2 08:04 apport.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 103025 Nov 2 08:04 apport.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 117 Oct 30 19:04 apport.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 945 Oct 27 08:54 apport.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 249 Oct 21 21:53 apport.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 447 Oct 21 09:22 apport.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 237 Oct 17 15:27 apport.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 373 Oct 17 11:20 apport.log.7.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 1 13:52 apt
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 118832 Nov 2 08:24 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 139959 Oct 29 08:01 auth.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 9736 Oct 22 09:00 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5990 Nov 2 08:20 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59400 Apr 12 2017 bootstrap.log
-rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Nov 1 08:42 btmp
-rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Apr 12 2017 btmp.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 08:04 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 11 2017 dist-upgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1801 Nov 1 13:52 dpkg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1751113 Oct 31 22:56 dpkg.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32032 Oct 28 10:52 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4208 Oct 26 18:54 fontconfig.log
drwx--x--x 2 root gdm 4096 Oct 27 08:54 gdm3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2303 Nov 2 08:20 gpu-manager.log
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 12 2017 hp
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 18:54 installer
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 44844350535 Nov 2 08:26 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 32755816806 Oct 29 08:04 kern.log.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Oct 28 10:52 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1419 Nov 2 08:20 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2087 Oct 29 07:57 mail.log.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 mongodb mongodb 4096 Oct 29 08:02 mongodb
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 155708327 Nov 2 08:26 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 9303776069 Nov 2 08:05 syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 304397086 Nov 1 08:42 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 541693693 Oct 31 07:03 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 602717000 Oct 30 09:17 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 695496075 Oct 29 08:04 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 639882787 Oct 28 09:03 syslog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3567386 Oct 27 08:59 syslog.7.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 11:57 teamviewer12
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4096 Nov 1 08:42 unattended-upgrades
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 5376 Nov 2 08:20 wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 60672 Nov 1 08:35 wtmp.1
It seems like the kernel logs are huge.
Did anyone run into this problem? What could be it and how can it be solved?
tail -n 100 /var/log/kern.log
to see if you can get some idea as to what's causing it to fill up (adjust 100 as needed if the last 100 lines don't show any pattern).logrotate
to try and get older logs cleared out -sudo logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.conf