/var/log constantly full = at /dev/zram1
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Hello all,
I am running an Orange Pi 5 board with Armbian on a SD Card and I realized that my /var/log path is constantly full, with it being at /dev/zram1
It gets full at 50Mb with the file /var/log/samba/cores/smbd/core taking up all the space
I have not managed to read this file, so I can't tell what kinds of errors are showing up. My OpenMediaVault and samba setup are running
I was looking for a solution to this for a long time before seeing John's post and figuring it out. Here's a more explicit explanation to hopefully help make this info easier to find.
This was tested and does work on both the Orange Pi 5 16GB, and the Orange Pi Zero 3 4GB. I haven't run into this issue on my x86 nodes as it doesn't appear zram exists on them at all on a fresh install.
If you go to the /etc/default directory, there should be a file called <distro>-ramlog. If you'r
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