Re: [Sheflug] LVM log file size - please, help!

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Hi

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> > We are using LVM here. And I recently noticed that /var/log/lvm is...
> > 800MB! It's actually occupied all the free space, so, no user files can be
>
> If it's just a standard log file you can safely rm it and a new one will be
> created. Really when you install a package that creates logs it should make a
> logrotate entry (man logrotate) in /etc/logrotate.d/ so the files will be

It should, but it didn't:-( standard lvm_0.8i-1.deb from 2.2r3 potato:-(
So, I had to do it myself (after asking on the LVM mailing list, where
Heinz confirmed, that the log can be safely deleted). So, I now check the
file every hour, and if it's > 1MB it's archived as lvm.1.gz,..., lvm.3.gz
becomes lvm.4.gz and lvm.4.gz is removed. Strange Debian didn't do this...

> trimmed regularly. I haven't used LVM on Linux but I would think 800Mb a
> little excessive for a log file, are you sure there is no problem with some
> repeated message or something?

No, nothing suspicious.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.
email: g.liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk



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