On 30 October 2017 at 21:08, Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: > On 29/10/17 01:04, Jenny Hopkins wrote: >> The worst culprit for filling up disk >> space unnecessarily are the hidden stuff in a users home directory >> that change constantly, like firefox directories and imap mail folder >> stuff, and also the server log files, - the above will now take care >> of this. > > Regarding log files, are you using date-based log rotation? eg using > dateext in logrotate. > > That stops you backing up a new copy of each compressed file every time > they're rotated. > > Just discovered many of mine are _not_ set up that way ... >
Ah, no they get rotated, zipped, and swap number suffixes with great enthusiasm! I'll look into this - thanks. Jenny _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
