All rotated files were collapsed into one inode. That's a bug. A serious one. [darkk@daisy2 /var/log]$ ls -li /var/log/messages* 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.0 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.1 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.2 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.3 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.4 5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.5 [darkk@daisy2 /var/log]$ head -1 /var/log/messages Sep 8 16:00:00 daisy2 newsyslog[41658]: logfile turned over due to size>500K How-To-Repeat: Fill /var partition with small files to use all inodes and try to rotate logs afterwards.
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