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don't ask why this is 139.2gb

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] julianh@lemm.ee 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

thats understandable

[–] Toes@ani.social 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 10 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.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the classic homework folder, linux edition.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

A good sign that everything is going OK

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

A true gibichad.

[–] GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago