How to disable log2ram

RoyK · Published in 2018-3-20 03:05:16

Hi all

I'm seeing my log fs is running full, since it's just 50MB. How can I disable log2ram? I don't really need it - the SD card should be able to handle this.

roy

RoyK · Published in 2018-3-20 03:30:04

Edited by RoyK at 2018-3-20 03:31

I didn't find anything around and asked before I tried, so ok

# systemctl stop rsyslog.service
# systemctl stop syslog.socket
# lsof /var/log
(make sure it's empty)
# systemctl stop log2ram
# systemctl disable log2ram
# mv /var/log /var/oldlog
# rsync -avPHAXx /var/oldlog /var/log
# reboot

After the reboot, remove /var/oldlog if you don't really need it

Works for me (tm) - if the logs fill up my fs, I'll need to fix that instead of getting tons of messages about a full filesystem

igorpec · Published in 2018-3-20 14:20:27

You only switch one problem for another. Now your SD card will die sooner.

We need to find some better way to handle this. Some ideas already popped out:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/ ... t-full-with-log2ram
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/ ... to-100-using-pihole