SD card seems to be full
Back again sorry. For some reason there is only 80 meg left on the SD card. No idea why. I am not running a camera although I did have the timelapse active. There were no files in the timelapse. I cleared out old print files. Can anyone point me to what might be taking up all of the space. Thank you!
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fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Not sure if this helps. As it's printing the availability of memory is going down steadily but no idea why.
you could plug the sd card into you PC to check, or use something like MobaXterm that gives you an ssh session into your pi along with a file browser, so you can click through.
Also you could Try to reset the logs, however I doubt that they take up 50 gigs
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Ok. Ill give it a shot.
Ssh into the pi and run
du -sh /* that will tell you where in the beginning of the filesystem is taking so much space. Print out the output here so we can help morefair-roseOP•14mo ago
Okay. I will see if I can recall how to do that! I am not that good with that kind of thing but I think I have some software. Its one of those irregular tasks. Hopefully I did not do something dumb like change the password on the Pi
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
When I tried the first command I got some strange messages
I then just used du -sh * and got the listed files
Nothing seems to be very big tho
That's because you are in your home directory. You need to
cd / first then run du -sh *fair-roseOP•14mo ago
I did the command cd / and then ran it and it say permission denied
You need to run as sudo
sudo du -sh *fair-roseOP•14mo ago
I ran that but its still saying the same read thing
I tried this du -f
sorry it was df -h
It shows /dev/root as used 56g
Sudo du -sh just says du: cannot access
Sorry for being dim. I really appreciate your help
it will let me cd to dev using cd dev/
but there is nothing in there.
It won't let me then cd root/
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
No, just
cd /
/dev/root is the filesystem
Show us a screenshot of sudo not workingfair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
It behaved different this time
I presume its 50G var?
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Just be this
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
log?
I have been doing some reading online and found something about "lograte"
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=24800#:~:text=Re%3A%20%2Fvar%2Flog%20takes%20up%20alot%20of%20space&text=log%20is%20pretty%20much%20as,lot%2C%20could%20be%20other%20commands.
Yes, so now go into var and run the du command again
Keep doing that until you find the file(s) that are causing the space issue
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
I did that its this file called log
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
I think
Sorry
Forgot the Sudo
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Its this log file. 49G.... so the question is.... please Sir.. how does one a) clear this file and then b) prevent it from getting to be this massive in the first place?
You sure log isn't a directory?
/var/log/ certainly is a directory (on my system)
run it in the log directory again?
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
I will check. Just had to run out to grab my kids. I'm not sure of any of this lol. So cd log/ then sudo du -sh* again. Thanks for sticking with me!
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Okay
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Looks to be twin culprits... 1) kern.log and 2) syslog
When I first started using the machine I was trying to configure a timeplapse which I did but in the end I stopped using it and removed the camera. I have a feeling that this is somehow linked to all this.
Okay! So I am at least learning something with this mystery... I found this command via google. sudo tail /var/log/messages
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Is it by any change continually trying to start a timelapse, failing and then logging this is the system file?
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
This is from the other two
Corrupted directory does not sound good
I have backed up my config file. Is there anything else you recommend me do. I have a feeling that my SD card might be on the way out if this is the case. I can presumably clear or delete these files but they will just return correct?
[include timelapse.cfg] #Test to see if the timelapse is enabled? If I comment out this will it disable any timelapse stuff?
Correct. You might be able to buy some more time if you format the SD card as that will mark the bad sectors and work around them. But ultimately SD cards are a consumable and will need to be replaced
fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Okay. I have no problem buying a new SD card. Is there a way to clear the logs to keep using the printer in the meantime. It might be a while before I can schedule time to do a complete do over. Is it just the config file that I need to save or should I be saving anything else?
clearing the logs:
* run
sudo rm /var/log/kern.log
* run sudo rm /var/log/syslog
what is needed to save:
* your printer.cfg for sure
* any other files you modified or added
Optional:
* some people really like the stats and such from mailsail, so you can export them and import then into your next install if you want (don't ask me how, I haven't done it. But if you search on this discord I think some have)fair-roseOP•14mo ago
Thank you. I would have been pulling my hair out if not for your kindness. I am not sure how I can repay you but I will for sure pass it forward and do my best to help others where I can. Once I am done I will put a summary of what happened here and what I did so that it can be found if anyone else runs into this.
glad I could help - paying it forward is the best we can do (it is how I have learned all of this)