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I recently started a masters and was given a linux station, then discovered that it was almost completety full, except for 40mb or so... The reason? Not prolific filesharing but ...
  1. 10-01-2007 #1
    drhallahan
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    The largest file ever!

    I recently started a masters and was given a linux station, then discovered that it was almost completety full, except for 40mb or so...
    The reason? Not prolific filesharing but the .xsession-errors file
    Size: 127.5Gb !!

    I'm a noob but it wasn't me... so, going to investigate then delete?
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    That's a pretty enormous log file. To the best of my knowledge, that file is expendable. Delete it. I would also keep an eye on the size of any new ones that get created to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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    Hi.

    One of the tasks that I do every night as part of a maintenance job is to clear that file before I do a backup (via cron). The file was being filled up with warning messages that I determined could be ignored. The warnings were primarily (if not exclusively) due to Firefox. I've been doing that for about 2 years now.

    As an example, the current contents of that file on my machine consists of several copies of lines like:
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    QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
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