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I started to work with pcie card on my Ubuntu pc. I have noticed that during operation, log files size at /var/log/ is increasing rapidly, especially syslog file (reached 36GB). it filled up with thousands lines of pcie read/write kernel massages. As consequences, free disk space is now empty, and I can't save anything or open the browser.

I tried different solutions including deleting zipped and *.log.1 files, logrotating the file, unsuccessfully. The only way I was able to get out of this mess was to restart the pc, until now.

How to configure the log files not to save pci massages?

Jonathan
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Try this:

Make a backup of your grub configuration file, in a terminal run:

   sudo cp /etc/default/grub ~/grub.back

Edit the file:

   sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Find the line that has:

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= “quiet splash”

Add pci=noaer to this line. AER stands for Advanced Error Reporting, and "noaer" tells the kernel not to use or log Advanced Error Reporting, so it looks like this:

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pci=noaer"

Save the file: Ctrl + O

Close Nano: Ctrl + X

Update grub:

   sudo update-grub

Restart Ubuntu

kyodake
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