My hard disk space has been gobbled up without me really installing much if anything. I had backups enabled and I disabled it before deleting the backups. Could they be sucking up all my disk space? I looked in my log directory and nothing in there is very big. I’ve done apt-get clean, auto clean, etc.
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logrotate
is the utility that automatically compresses old log files. You can also configure it to delete older logs. Edit the file/etc/logrotate.d/apache2
It will look like:Add
maxage 14
to delete logs older than two weeks.Issue the command below to see what folder is using up most space
That should give a summary of what folder is the largest. It won’t be an instant result, give the command time to run.