Preventing Disk Full Outages: Logrotate Recipes for High-Volume Game Server Logs
Game server logs can balloon to 50GB in days. Setting up logrotate configurations with compression, retention policies, and automated disk cleanup.
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By Marcus Vance, Principal Sysadmin
Why Unmanaged Logs Crash Game Servers
Verbose debug logging in Rust, Palworld, and CS2 writes hundreds of lines per second. When the host NVMe fills to 100%, SQLite transactions fail and game worlds suffer immediate crash state corruption.
1. /etc/logrotate.d/gameservers Configuration
/home/*server*/server/**/*.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 7
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
copytruncate
}