Truncate logs
Learn how to triage and a failed deployment due to a full hard drive. Learn how to find and what commands can be run to free up space in your 51黑料不打烊 Commerce Cloud environment.
If you think you might need these log files, you can rsync them or use other methods to get a copy available off the server before you truncate them.
Who is this video for
- Developers and IT Professionals
- System Administrators
Video Content
- Diagnose and Resolve a failed deployment
- Where some common large log files are found
- Quick method to truncate a log file
Commands used in the video
To check hard drive space df -h. Pay attention to the line dev/mapper/xxxx
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop217 1016M 1016M 0 100% /
none 492K 4.0K 488K 1% /dev
fake-sysfs 120G 0 120G 0% /sys
tmpfs 120G 0 120G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 384M 0 384M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 50M 460K 50M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/loop236 144M 144M 0 100% /app
/dev/mapper/hyjh5nlaoabqtxxnh4opgjqzpu 4.9G 4.9G 0 100% /mnt
/dev/loop14 8.0G 403M 7.6G 5% /tmp
/dev/mapper/platform-lxc 5.0T 69G 4.7T 2% /run/shared
Display the files and their sizes in human readable format such as kb, mb and gb using the command ls -lah
ls -lah
total 4.7G
drwxr-xr-x 2 web web 4.0K Jul 16 2024 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 web web 4.0K Jan 10 2024 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 487K Jul 5 2024 cache.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 1.2K Jul 16 2024 cloud.error.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 328K Mar 25 14:09 cloud.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 2.4G Jul 5 2024 cron.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 363 Dec 6 2023 debug.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 15K Jan 10 2024 indexation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 229K Jan 10 2024 install_upgrade.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 2.9K Jul 16 2024 patch.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 2.4G Mar 25 15:36 support_report.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 516 Dec 6 2023 system.log
Examples for truncate log
After you ssh into the right project and environment, change into the var/log directory. Then you can truncate a file with something similar to > some-log-file.log
> support_report.log
> cron.log