Partition / filled by log files thanks to the Intel wifi card

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Davide Valenti

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Do you remember the problem given to me by the Intel wifi card? Who causes my system to slow down? Well that problem was solved but I've noticed that the / partition has been filled by the logs of "Couldn't find free firmware"!!!!!!

The file kern.log and syslog.1 togheter occupy 66 GB!!! That's absurd for logs files!!!!
What should I do? May I delete those files without have problems in the management of the system?

jxself
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Sure, delete logs but that won't stop them from coming back.

Blacklist the kernel module?

Even better: Remove the Intel WiFi card?

Magic Banana

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If you only want to remove that specific message (not the rest of the log):
$ sudo sed -i '/Couldn\'t find free firmware/d' /var/log/*

This command deletes every lines, in the logs, that contains the string "Couldn't find free firmware".

MeNoMore
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for that session only or, every time the system sees the line?

lembas
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Once.

lembas
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Once.

MeNoMore
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for that session only or, every time the system sees the line?

Davide Valenti

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I've have already solved the problem of the Intel wifi card upgrading the kernel and that stopped the infinite loop that was slowing down my system, however after 1 week I've found what that problem left me in the /var/log directory.

So the logs won't come back :), I've only to remove them :)

Davide Valenti

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Ok I've chosen the most radical way, I've deleted the logs files :D and now the partition is no more filled :)

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Do you remember the problem given to me by the Intel wifi card? Who causes my
system to slow down? Well that problem was solved but I've noticed that the /
partition has been filled by the logs of "Couldn't find free firmware"!!!!!!

The file kern.log and syslog.1 togheter occupy 66 GB!!! That's absurd for
logs files!!!!
What should I do? May I delete those files without have problems in the
management of the system?

jxself
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Joined: 09/13/2010

Sure, delete logs but that won't stop them from coming back.

Blacklist the kernel module?

Even better: Remove the Intel WiFi card?

Magic Banana

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Joined: 07/24/2010

If you only want to remove that specific message (not the rest of the log):
$ sudo sed -i '/Couldn't find free firmware/d' /var/log/*

This command deletes every lines, in the logs, that contains the string
"Couldn't find free firmware".

davide@valentisrl.eu
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I've have already solved the problem of the Intel wifi card upgrading the
kernel and that stopped the infinite loop that was slowing down my system,
however after 1 week I've found what that problem left me in the /var/log
directory, so the logs won't come back :)
I've only to remove them :)

davide@valentisrl.eu
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Ok I've chosen the most radical way, I've deleted the logs files :D and now
the partition is no more filled :)