Comments on: How to quickly trim a log in Linux – Maybe?

By: velda

velda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:59 +0000

Good to know! Thanks for the update.

By: Byron Clark

Byron Clark — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:01:59 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t think about the solution enough. Just removing the file would leave it on the disk until the writing process closes it. Your solution works as advertised.

By: velda

velda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:45:21 +0000

Hmmm, I didn’t think about that… and it seemed to free up the disk space nicely… Where does the huge file stay?

By: Byron Clark

Byron Clark — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:31:49 +0000

There’s only one small problem with that method. The original huge log file still exists on disk and will not be removed until the process doing the logging closes it. You’ll want to either send a SIGHUP to or restart the logging process after trimming the file.