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Free System space from massive log files
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Free System Space from Massive Logs

  1. Remove compressed log files from /var/log
$ sudo find /var/log -type f -name "*.gz" -delete
  1. Truncate Log files
$ cd /var/log

$ sudo truncate -s 0 mail.log
$ sudo truncate -s 0 mail.log.1

$ sudo truncate -s 0 syslog
$ sudo truncate -s 0 syslog.1
  1. Truncate Nginx error/access logs
$ cd to_nginx_log_dir
$ sudo truncate -s 0 error.log access.log
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