Hi I recently did an auto install of R5A12 on my drive. The installed allocated about 3 gigs to the root partition on my 200G drive. This is probably enough but for some reason my root partition keeps filling up -- to 100% usage.

I checked /var/log/message and /var/log/syslog (sp??) and they were both over 300MBs.. this is probably due to my attempts to get WIFI working etc... However, are there any other locations that might have information that I can delete? / seems a little bloated. Also, is there anything that I should do to limit the level of logging.

Also at one point and tried (and failed ) to make a DVD via the Knoppmyth menus.. I had no idea what I was doing.. Could that have filled up my root partition?

as root

cd /

du -h --max-depth=1

find what is using all the space. (don't worry about /cache or /mytht as they are different partitions)
then move into that directory and repeat till you find what's filling all your space. my guess would be it's going to be under /var/log somewhere.

once you find the directory you can use

ls -lh

to display a long listing with human readable filenames to figure out which files are the largest.

Note: if you find a huge log file it is generally an indication of some problem. It is very difficult to open a 1Gb file, but you can use

tail filename

to see what is at the end and generally a large log file means some sort of repeated loop, so you should see what you need.

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Xsecrets

same thing to me, but syslog and messages are ok

but /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log was 700 MB big

Huh. Checked mine out too:



Lots of entries of this nature in the .5 file:


That may have been around the time I gave up trying to get the pvr-350 to work with the newer ivtvs and why it stopped repeating (I told mythtv to ignore that tuner card on friday or thereabouts).

-brendan