Sorry if this is a noob question. My server is low on disk space. I see that gitlab-shell.log is 1.6GB with entries going back much farther than is useful. I checked the documentation and it seems that this file isn’t just a simple log. The phrasing makes it sound as if this file contains important information such as SSH keys. How can I safely reclaim space used by this file?
Hi benjit,
I would request you to take a backup of this file, using below command
cd /<LOCATION_OF_LOGFILE>
tar -cvzf /<BACKUP_LOCATION/gitlab-shell.log.tar.gz gitlab-shell.log
And then run this command to empty this file
echo > gitlab-shell.log
Top of that it would be great if you could modify your log rotation for this file on size basis.
/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
And change the default setting according to your requirement and do not forget to uncomment the below line
logging[‘svlogd_size’] = 200 * 1024 * 1024 # rotate after 200 MB of log data
Thanks
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