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I'm running UBUNTU 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa). I have a disk usage issue and I cant find the location or identify what is consuming my disk space using the Disk Usage Analyzer. I know that it's located at the /var/log, but I don't know the exact location. enter image description here

How to solve this?

Stratus
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    You may want to start by looking in /var/log and see which file(s) might be consuming gigabytes of storage space. If it’s syslog, find out what is complaining, because it’s important. If it’s something else, [edit] your question with the details and someone may be able to offer something specific and actionable to solve your problem – matigo Sep 22 '21 at 14:59
  • @matigo it is indeed the syslog.1 file that is consuming more than 600 GB.. – Stratus Sep 22 '21 at 15:01
  • Here is one of the errors that is showing in the log file: Sep 21 15:10:54 userdcec update-notifier.desktop[22371]: [22371:22371:0100/000000.110853:ERROR:zygote_linux.cc(241)] Error reading message from browser: Socket operation on non-socket (88) – Stratus Sep 22 '21 at 15:06
  • seems a google chrome problem... – Stratus Sep 22 '21 at 15:08
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    I found a similar question here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1103137/huge-syslog-file-crashing-system – Stratus Sep 22 '21 at 15:11
  • If I delete this syslog.1 file will I have problems? – Stratus Sep 22 '21 at 15:17
  • Log files that end in .1 and .2, etc - these are archived log files and can be safely deleted. Back it up somewhere else if you aren't sure. It would still be good to determine why these log files are so big so you can fix the root problem – Nmath Sep 22 '21 at 17:17
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    Does this answer your question? Check how space is distributed on a Linux system . Retry with ncdu /var/log . – N0rbert Sep 22 '21 at 18:05

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