Huge 114GB and 53GB Kernel logs
Hi all,
I was wondering why my iMac had such a small amount of free space and took a look at it using Disk Inventory X. Apparently I have two log files in private/var/log that are huge. kernel.log.0 which weighs in at 114GB and kernel.log.1 at 53GB. What looks to be an active kernel.log is only 813KB. I'm not very experienced in this area of the mac so while this looks highly fishy to me, I'm not sure what to do about it. The installation is a recent clean install and the machine only a few months old.
Any thoughts on how I can reclaim the disk space? Can these log files be safely deleted and if so how? And is there likely to be a wider problem that this is a symptom of? Many thanks in advance.
MrGatsby
I was wondering why my iMac had such a small amount of free space and took a look at it using Disk Inventory X. Apparently I have two log files in private/var/log that are huge. kernel.log.0 which weighs in at 114GB and kernel.log.1 at 53GB. What looks to be an active kernel.log is only 813KB. I'm not very experienced in this area of the mac so while this looks highly fishy to me, I'm not sure what to do about it. The installation is a recent clean install and the machine only a few months old.
Any thoughts on how I can reclaim the disk space? Can these log files be safely deleted and if so how? And is there likely to be a wider problem that this is a symptom of? Many thanks in advance.
MrGatsby
iMac10, 1, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
