Truncate logs
Learn how to triage and a failed deployment due to a full hard drive. Learn how to find and what commands can be run to free up space in your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce Cloud environment.
If you think you might need these log files, you can rsync them or use other methods to get a copy available off the server before you truncate them.
Who is this video for
- Developers and IT Professionals
- System Administrators
Video Content
- Diagnose and Resolve a failed deployment
- Where some common large log files are found
- Quick method to truncate a log file
Commands used in the video
To check hard drive space df -h. Pay attention to the line dev/mapper/xxxx
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop217 1016M 1016M 0 100% /
none 492K 4.0K 488K 1% /dev
fake-sysfs 120G 0 120G 0% /sys
tmpfs 120G 0 120G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 384M 0 384M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 50M 460K 50M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/loop236 144M 144M 0 100% /app
/dev/mapper/hyjh5nlaoabqtxxnh4opgjqzpu 4.9G 4.9G 0 100% /mnt
/dev/loop14 8.0G 403M 7.6G 5% /tmp
/dev/mapper/platform-lxc 5.0T 69G 4.7T 2% /run/shared
Display the files and their sizes in human readable format such as kb, mb and gb using the command ls -lah
ls -lah
total 4.7G
drwxr-xr-x 2 web web 4.0K Jul 16 2024 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 web web 4.0K Jan 10 2024 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 487K Jul 5 2024 cache.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 1.2K Jul 16 2024 cloud.error.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 328K Mar 25 14:09 cloud.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 2.4G Jul 5 2024 cron.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 363 Dec 6 2023 debug.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 15K Jan 10 2024 indexation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 229K Jan 10 2024 install_upgrade.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web web 2.9K Jul 16 2024 patch.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 2.4G Mar 25 15:36 support_report.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web web 516 Dec 6 2023 system.log
Examples for truncate log
After you ssh into the right project and environment, change into the var/log directory. Then you can truncate a file with something similar to > some-log-file.log
> support_report.log
> cron.log