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This chapter gives a few tips relating to moving or removing files that are consuming large amounts of disk space. In some cases you may have a file system that’s filling up because a process adds copious amounts of entries to a log file. When you run into a large log file that is found to be the primary cause of a full file system, your first inclination may be to remove the file to reclaim space. However, this may not work as you might intend.
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(2009). Removing Large Files and Log Rolling. In: Expert Shell Scripting. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1842-5_40
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