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Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!

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Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> writes:

> Since there's almost no documentation as to what can be safely rm'd in
> /var without breaking your system, I decide the least risky choice is
> to sudo rm -rf the offending 3-gig syslog file from single-user mode
> and the systemd debug shell. But *THIS* command failed because there
> was 'no space left on the device'. Is this right? Does rm need space
> on a drive to free other space?

Yes, this is right. The problem is not 'rm', the problem is that you use
sudo without understanding why it is set up like that: sudo logs the
command it executes to /var/log/auth.log


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    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.

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A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> - 2016-11-15 06:20 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-15 06:40 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-11-15 07:10 +0100
  btrfs filesystem full problems (was Re: A full /var partition  destroyed 3 hours of my life!) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-11-15 10:00 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 10:30 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-15 11:10 +0100

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