this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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don't ask why this is 139.2gb

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

thats understandable

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Always nice to see ssd killing log files.

There's a type of denial of service attack that's just about filling log files until the drive is full.

If you delete it and enable folder compression for that directory you can save additional space if the data is valuable for the future.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

That DoS is funny because if the victim uses a cloud environment with scaling storage, it can become insanely expensive. It might not crash the machine or service, but their AWS bill might be a bit higher than expected.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the classic homework folder, linux edition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aye, but is it a tar file or just a fat32 ISO?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ext4, xfs, you can format a file with a file system and mount it like a disk.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

A good sign that everything is going OK

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the real question is whether it's true giga- or gibibytes tho

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

A true gibichad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Delete it to see if the system crashes