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Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since |
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it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I |
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got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that |
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/var/log/messages is huge. |
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# ls -lh /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 12G Aug 16 20:15 /var/log/messages |
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It seem to be constantly written to and growing. |
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# ls -l /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 11986603021 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages |
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# ls -l /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 11986687279 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages |
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# ls -l /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 11986759997 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages |
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# ls -l /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 11986783403 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages |
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# ls -l /var/log/messages |
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-rw------- 1 root root 11986830215 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages |
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When I tail it I get the following. |
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# tail /var/log/messages |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: |
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xfer 13 bytes |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 13/13 |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk status result = 0 |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk Status S 0x53425355 T |
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0x5c33 R 0 Stat 0x0 |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0 |
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Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. |
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What's going on here? Why all these usb-storage messages? |
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I don't know exactly when this started, but I'm guessing it has to do |
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with a recent upgrade. |
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I also thought there's suppose to be some sort of log rotation going on |
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to prevent this. |
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Any ideas? |
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Right now I'm going to "cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages" so I can boot |
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up in the morning. |
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Now my /var dropped to 16%. |
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Thanks, |
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dhk |
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