The Engineer's Workshop Newsletter: March 8, 2021

[TorqueWrench]

Projects From This Past Week:

- New Blog Content

• Drafting some new content. Be on the lookout for new articles in the coming weeks on Linux, Ghost CMS improvements you can make, and Unraid!

Save Disk Space By Setting Up Logrotate with Your Ghost Blog

- Grad School Application Submitted! Wish me luck!

- Server Maintenance and Some New Notes (in the forum)

• Discovered that Ghost doesn’t implement logrotation, so Ghost’s logs can eventually grow to consume all disk space

PSA: Lack of Log Rotation Configuration in Ghost Server Can Eventually Consume All Disk Space

Whenever I backup my Ghost content, I’ve noticed that rsync seems to hang as it moves two particularly large files- specifically the log files found in /var/www/ghost/content/logs/. (You can read more about my Ghost backup process here: Backup Your Ghost Content to unRAID). Looking at the directory on my Unraid server, the log file directory was much larger than I expected, several gigs in fact. The culprit? The lack of logfile rotation with the default local Ghost install. tl;dr: If you just …

• Defragmenting HDD Array in Unraid

This Week’s Goals (+ Stuff You Can Look Forward To This Week):

- Notes on defragmenting in Unraid in the forum

- Fix broken Ubuntu upgrade on laptop

- Draft blog article on recovering from a failed Ubuntu upgrade