I don't understand why the /var/log/journal/ folder is so big.
For example, by executing the command systemctl -f, i see the fill.
If I click on an email on Thunderbird, it generates dozens of lines that I consider useless.
Currently, I have more than 1.5GB (du -h /var/log/journal/) generated in 1 day!
Is there a method to reduce this log considerably without stopping logging?
I've run into a problem on one of my servers running 16.04: there is no disk space left.
I have no idea what is taking up the space. Is there a command to list the current directory sizes, so I can traverse and end up in the directory taking up all the space?
I was looking through my system with du -sch ./* to find the big useless files I may have stockpiled with no reason, when I found this:
$ du -sch ./*
du: cannot read directory ‘./drbunsen/.gvfs’: Permission denied
du: cannot read directory ‘./drbunsen/.cache/dconf’: Permission denied
18G ./drbunsen
18G total
$ cd drbunsen/
$ du -sch ./*
601M ./Desktop
20K ./Documents
598M ./Downloads
4.0K ./flash
4.0K ./Music
8.0M ./Pictures
4.0K ./Public
4.0K ./Templates
4.0K ./Ubuntu One
8.0K ./Videos
11G ./VirtualBox VMs
6.9M ./workspace
12G total
How do I make hidden files visible? du -sch ./.* gives the same result as du -sch ./*.
I just got a message from the default disk analyses software (Baobab)
that I only have 1GB left on the hard drive. After some search, I found that the /var/log/ folder is the cause of this.
Some file/sizes in /var/log/:
Et cetera et cetera. /var/log is huge.
Can I delete those files or the entire /var/log folder? Or is that a BIG NO NO in Ubuntu?
What is the command to find out how much disk space is being used/remaining?