Request for explanation of error message

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Sonntag, den 28.07.2019, 03:17 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> 
> In looking at folders in / , I find
> /var is 81.5GB
> 
> /var/log is 78.9GB
> 
> /var/log/lightdm is 48.3GB
> 
> /var/log/journal is 1.5GB
> 
> and
> 
> Xorg.0.log.old is 29.1GB (can I delete that?)

yes, it will be re-created on next Xorg startup

> 
> Should that lightdm thing really be that big?

no, it should definitely not ...

do you have logrotate installed (this is typically in every default
ubuntu install and makes sure to compress logs and rotate them so not
too much space gets used up in /var/log)

check with:

dpkg -l | grep logrotate

ciao
	oli
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