file system rootfs, which is mounted at /, has reached warn status because it is 90% full

obak

• January 14, 2015 23:46

I am receiving this email message titled "The file system rootfs, which is mounted at /, has reached warn status because it is 90% full." The rootfs & /dev/root is 90% full (please see bellow). What Can I do now? How to clean this and get free spaces?
root@host [/]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 49G 42G 4.9G 90% / /dev/root 49G 42G 4.9G 90% / devtmpfs 16G 272K 16G 1% /dev /dev/md3 1.8T 17G 1.7T 1% /home tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm /dev/loop0 485M 11M 449M 3% /tmp /dev/loop0 485M 11M 449M 3% /var/tmp
I also found this 16 GB files here:
root@host [/var]# find /var -type f -size +500000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' /var/log/messages: 19G
please help me.

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  triantech

  • January 15, 2015 10:45

  Hey, /var/log/messages contains the general logs associated with your server. If you do not have anything to check or investigate, you can safely clear this log to free up the space ! Also, why not consider about enabling log rotation for these logs ? I guess you haven't turned it on yet ?

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  obak

  • January 15, 2015 11:53

  @triantech, Did you mean schedule logging? If not, how can i do that? In WHM Backup settings previously it was each day of week. But I set it today once a week. please tell me how to enable enabling log rotation and proper setting.

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 15, 2015 13:57

  Hello :) Log rotation for /var/log/messages is an OS-level function as opposed to a cPanel/WHM function. You can enable logrotate for /var/log/messages using the instructions in the following thread as an example: Log Rotation Thank you.

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  triantech

  • January 15, 2015 16:15

  hey, yes it's pretty simple to configure log rotation since the config file, etc/logrotate.conf is straightforward

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