Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge.
# ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 12G Aug 16 20:15 /var/log/messages It seem to be constantly written to and growing. # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986603021 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986687279 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986759997 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986783403 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986830215 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages When I tail it I get the following. # tail /var/log/messages Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 13/13 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk status result = 0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk Status S 0x53425355 T 0x5c33 R 0 Stat 0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. What's going on here? Why all these usb-storage messages? I don't know exactly when this started, but I'm guessing it has to do with a recent upgrade. I also thought there's suppose to be some sort of log rotation going on to prevent this. Any ideas? Right now I'm going to "cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages" so I can boot up in the morning. Now my /var dropped to 16%. Thanks, dhk
