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rg-f5
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Apr 27, 2024

Disk space full - what files, folders are safe to delete?

Hi I've searched Dev Central for help with clearing disk space.   I am happy to use bash as I have now figured out how to display files within var/log directory and use the "rm" command to remove f...
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F5_Design_Engineer
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Apr 28, 2024

download WINSCP and connect using scp protocol or SFTP. change the advance settings use bash shell for defaults folder ,navigate to the /var folder, you can now check and select what does you like to delete  navigate and delete from WINSCP like windows explorer 

Don't delete files from production boxes without taking a proper ucs backup and also take qkview.

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    rg-f5
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    Apr 28, 2024

    Thanks this actually helps a lot. But what files are safe to delete in /var/log folder without causing any issues?

     

    I understand UCS backups.

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      zamroni777
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      Apr 29, 2024

      you can check via ls in ssh console or sftp above to see which files in /var/log has big size

      /var/log/ltm might be the one as log command in irules usually writes to it.

      instead of delete, you can empty the file using command "cat /dev/null > /var/log/thefilename"