[linux-lvm] HUGE LVM log file...

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:13:36PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hello
> 
> This is a (rather) urgent issue, so, I am posting it to the 2 lists,
> although, it might not be a bug.
> 
> My /var/log/lvm has grown up to 800MB+... and has filled up the disk...
> well, almost... Since it's ext2, there's still some space, only available
> for the root, and it is currently filling up that space too... What do I
> do with it?

Remove it.
lvmsadc is probably filling it run by cron.

> Is it ok to chop off its head / remove it, do I need it at
> all, how do I limit its size without a need to do it manually every time
> (except cron-job)?

Remove lvmsadc from the crontab in case you don't like/need the log anyway.

> 
> Please, help!
> 
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ___
> 
> 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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