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rg-f5
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Apr 19, 2024

F5 terminal - help to run commands - disk space full

Hello, I am learning F5 and I have searched through many of posts. I really need to under how the f5 works.    When i load up my f5 in cli - i see this  (cfg-sync In Sync) (Active) (/Common) (tmo...
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hi yes i've just figured out how to use bash

 

now i want to delete log file contents, ideally var log and free up some space, can you help AaronJB please?

i prefer to use bash but i do not want to disrupt any services

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AaronJB
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Apr 26, 2024

You can pretty safely delete anything in /var/log with a numerical extension like .1 or .2.gz as those are old rotated-out logfiles - if you need to delete any logs which are currently being written to then the best thing is to delete the historical logs and then force log rotation to happen (some help possibly here: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13367 )

 

Also have a good look in the following locations for suspiciously large files - I've seen people accidentally record huge pcaps there on more than one occasion:

/config
/root

Also this directory usually holds software images - they can be large and consume a lot of space on small systems:
/shared/images

 

Searching the entire filesystem for the largest files can also sometimes net good rewards, but it's a slow process:

du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 20


HTH!