0 byte left on device

[MacOsX74]

Hi!

I have a big problem that i cant get fixed by myself.
Something is eating my up my diskspace.

I have deleted some apps and empty the trashcan but every time i start up i get a messege saying 0 byte left on device. I dont get a gui when i start up but i can login via remote desktop and that swhere i see the messege.

I run ncdu and i only use 565,7mb.

I´m running 12.04 on an 60Gb ssd disk.


I have no idea of what to do so any help would be great.

I have found the folder thats eating my space. Its the /var/log/upstart
Its 32gb.

I have now found the file. Its the lightdm.log file. 31.6Gb
How can i fix this?

The error messege is this: (gnome-settings-deamon:6270): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: appindicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)´ failed

[Kirk Schnable]

I have never noticed huge logs in that folder myself. I did find this page about what that folder is, and how to turn off the logs for certain programs:
http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2012/...g-upstart.html

That being said, I would expect log rotate to move the files and eliminate them before they get so large.

I'd be curious to see the output of:

cd /var/log/upstart/
du -ch *

Do you have any reason to believe log rotate's default settings would have been modified on your system? How frequently is this lightdm error recorded in the log file? Is the error you pasted above the only significant one, and it is being repeated tons of times, or are there other obvious errors in the log file mentioned?

[MacOsX74]

Here are the output.

xbmc@Xbmc-Server:~$ cd /var/log/upstart/
xbmc@Xbmc-Server:/var/log/upstart$ du -ch *
4,0K    alsa-restore.log.1.gz
4,0K    alsa-restore.log.2.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.1.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.2.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.3.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.4.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.5.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.6.gz
4,0K    console-setup.log.7.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.1.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.2.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.3.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.4.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.5.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.6.gz
4,0K    container-detect.log.7.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.1.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.2.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.3.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.4.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.5.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.6.gz
4,0K    cryptdisks-enable.log.7.gz
4,0K    cups.log.1.gz
4,0K    cups.log.2.gz
4,0K    cups.log.3.gz
4,0K    cups.log.4.gz
4,0K    cups.log.5.gz
4,0K    cups.log.6.gz
4,0K    cups.log.7.gz
4,0K    failsafe-x.log.1.gz
4,0K    failsafe-x.log.2.gz
4,0K    failsafe-x.log.3.gz
4,0K    failsafe-x.log.4.gz
4,0K    failsafe-x.log.5.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.1.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.2.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.3.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.4.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.5.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.6.gz
4,0K    gssd.log.7.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.1.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.2.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.3.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.4.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.5.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.6.gz
4,0K    hybrid-gfx.log.7.gz
104M    lightdm.log.1.gz
96M    lightdm.log.2.gz
60K    lightdm.log.3.gz
52K    lightdm.log.4.gz
52K    lightdm.log.5.gz
48K    lightdm.log.6.gz
12K    lightdm.log.7.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.1.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.2.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.3.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.4.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.5.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.6.gz
4,0K    modemmanager.log.7.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.1.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.2.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.3.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.4.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.5.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.6.gz
4,0K    module-init-tools.log.7.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.1.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.2.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.3.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.4.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.5.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.6.gz
4,0K    mysql.log.7.gz
4,0K    networking.log.1.gz
4,0K    networking.log.2.gz
4,0K    networking.log.3.gz
4,0K    networking.log.4.gz
4,0K    networking.log.5.gz
4,0K    networking.log.6.gz
4,0K    networking.log.7.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.1.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.2.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.3.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.4.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.5.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.6.gz
4,0K    network-interface-eth0.log.7.gz
4,0K    network-interface-tap0.log.1.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.1.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.2.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.3.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.4.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.5.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.6.gz
4,0K    procps-static-network-up.log.7.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.1.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.2.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.3.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.4.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.5.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.6.gz
4,0K    procps-virtual-filesystems.log.7.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.1.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.2.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.3.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.4.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.5.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.6.gz
4,0K    rsyslog.log.7.gz
4,0K    statd.log.1.gz
4,0K    statd.log.2.gz
4,0K    statd.log.3.gz
4,0K    statd.log.4.gz
4,0K    statd.log.5.gz
4,0K    statd.log.6.gz
4,0K    statd.log.7.gz
4,0K    udev-fallback-graphics.log.1.gz
4,0K    ureadahead.log.1.gz
8,0K    ureadahead.log.2.gz
4,0K    ureadahead.log.3.gz
4,0K    ureadahead.log.4.gz
4,0K    ureadahead.log.5.gz
4,0K    ureadahead.log.6.gz
8,0K    ureadahead.log.7.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.1.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.2.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.3.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.4.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.5.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.6.gz
4,0K    ureadahead-other.log.7.gz
4,0K    vsftpd.log.1.gz
4,0K    vsftpd.log.2.gz
200M    totalt
xbmc@Xbmc-Server:/var/log/upstart$

The wierd thing is that now the 31,6 gb file is gone. I havent done anything.
Now there is only xxxxx.log.x.gz folders. before I had one of each xxxxxx.log.
How is that.

[spec36]

Run this command to show your file system info and drive space USE%, Available, etc... What do you see?

df -h

[spec36]

If you want to watch the filesize of the lightdm logs run this command. It will show you any changes happening in realtime / near-realtime to those files.

cd /var/log/upstart
sudo watch -d "du -ch * | grep -i lightdm"

[MacOsX74]

Run this command to show your file system info and drive space USE%, Available, etc... What do you see?

df -h

Output of df -h:

xbmc@Xbmc-Server:~$ df -h
Filsystem                     Storlek Använt Ledigt Anv% Monterat på
/dev/mapper/Xbmc--Server-root     40G   9,5G    28G  26% /
udev                             7,9G   4,0K   7,9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                            3,2G   1,2M   3,2G   1% /run
none                             5,0M      0   5,0M   0% /run/lock
none                             7,9G    80K   7,9G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sde1                        228M   153M    64M  71% /boot
overflow                         1,0M    56K   968K   6% /tmp
/dev/md0                          11T   7,0T   3,3T  69% /media
xbmc@Xbmc-Server:~$

[spec36]

Based off the USE% (Anv%) of your partitions you do not appear to have maxed out any of the partitions. Are you still getting the error?

[MacOsX74]

Based off the USE% (Anv%) of your partitions you do not appear to have maxed out any of the partitions. Are you still getting the error?

No. The error is gone. Lets see if it comes back.

[Pjotr123]

As it concerns an SSD, I would issue a manual trim command, to make sure you regain as much space as possible:
https://sites.google.com/site/easyli...-TRIM-manually

[TheFu]

Run this command to show your file system info and drive space USE%, Available, etc... What do you see?

df -h

There is another type of file system storage that can prevent new files from being stored - an inode. Use

df -i

to see the available inodes on each file system. I haven't had that issue for a few years, but back in the EXT2 days, running out of inodes was much more common especially on systems with many, many, many tiny files.