Hi - I am trying to use log2ram, but even though I have made the ram drive as large as 400M (ten+ times what I should need, it's a RPi with debian and recently put together), it crashes with the complaint that there isn't enough space for /var/hdd.log.
Running du -sh on /var/log gives me a total of 649M (!!)
Running ls -sSh, however, only 13M (see below, and the directories below /var/log are all very small as well). I deleted old logs (.2+, .gz, etc) - nothing helps.
Why that gigantic difference? Ideas what to look for? TIA!
Code:
total 13M
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 9.9M Jan 17 07:17 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 664K Jan 17 08:20 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 392K Jan 17 08:16 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 389K Jan 17 08:21 auth.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 287K Jan 17 08:15 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 183K Jan 17 08:15 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130K Jan 14 14:50 dpkg.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 125K Jan 17 08:15 wtmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 108K Jan 17 08:15 kern.log
-rw------- 1 root root 54K Jan 1 00:01 boot.log.5
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 44K Jan 17 08:15 user.log
-rw------- 1 root root 37K Jan 17 08:14 vncserver-x11.log.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K Jan 1 20:39 faillog
-rw------- 1 root root 14K Jan 17 08:15 vncserver-x11.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 12K Jan 17 08:15 debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.6K Jan 17 08:14 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.5K Jan 17 08:14 Xorg.0.log
-rw------- 1 root root 7.1K Jan 17 08:14 boot.log
-rw------- 1 root root 6.8K Jan 16 00:00 boot.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.4K Jan 1 21:16 fontconfig.log
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4.0K Jan 17 00:00 apache2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 14 14:47 apt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 17 00:00 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 25 2020 firebird
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 21 17:12 hp
drwxr-sr-x+ 3 root systemd-journal 4.0K Sep 21 17:34 journal
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 17 08:14 lightdm
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Sep 21 17:34 private
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 21 17:06 runit
drwxr-x--- 3 root adm 4.0K Jan 16 20:26 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5K Jan 1 20:33 alternatives.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 21 17:34 bootstrap.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 17 08:24 out.txt