systemd resets the logs when they get big, this isn’t the 2000s anymore. But if you want to limit the size of /var/log, any modern filesystem has disk quotas per-directory
I found out the hard way that this isn’t always true. The vacuum task runs occasionally, but if the logs get spammed hard enough (i.e. faulty hardware) you can get 50GB of log files.
That said, this problem can be prevented using a little extra configuration. I just didn’t expect this to be a problem on a vanilla Ubuntu install, lol.
systemd resets the logs when they get big, this isn’t the 2000s anymore. But if you want to limit the size of /var/log, any modern filesystem has disk quotas per-directory
I found out the hard way that this isn’t always true. The vacuum task runs occasionally, but if the logs get spammed hard enough (i.e. faulty hardware) you can get 50GB of log files.
That said, this problem can be prevented using a little extra configuration. I just didn’t expect this to be a problem on a vanilla Ubuntu install, lol.