[Abbas]

I got a warning from OS X today that my 150GB Raptor drive (which is my boot drive) is full which I found a bit weird. Upon checking different files and folders, the console.log file located in /Library/Logs/Console was taking up almost 56GB. I moved it to Trash but when I try to empty trash, it says the file is in use.

What is the world is using this file and how can I prevent a log file growing to 56GB??

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[Simon]

Did you take a look at the file? Obviously something is writing a whole lot of stuff to it. Check out what that something is.

Also, the weekly maintenance script should rotate the console logfile. Did it run? Did it rotate the logfile?

[Abbas]

I'm not much of a Mac Guru- I simply moved the file to trash can and restarted the Mac. Volia- now I have over 70GB free!

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[Simon]

How do you know it won't fill up again quickly? And what about the performance hit?