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I just did a fresh install on a 1 TB SDD. Install is fine. I checked the disk using Disks and I see the percentage full continuously increasing. Why is this happening?

I noticed that I don't see a swap partition - could that be the reason?

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Now the full space is up to 11.9% and keeps increasing.

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While searching for information regarding kern.log and syslog.1, I found a page to zero the file size. I performed this after I resolved the source of the problem.

The source was that in the background, I had a constant error regarding PCIe Bus Error. This was throwing line after line scrolling on the screen and I didn't see it until I shut the machine down.

Searching for the PCIe Bus Error led me to this page: it describes how to apply the fix. This worked for me.

you need to add pci=noaer to your kernel command line.

Following the instruction on the page mentioned, the errors stopped and no further space was taken up by logs.

I then zeroed the kern.log and syslog.1 which had become very large - over 160 GB using the 'Shortest method:' from this page.

What resolved the issue?

  1. Add pci=noaer to kernel command line
  2. zero log files kernel.log and syslog.1
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