How to handle disk full errors while logging in logback?

Question

I am using slf4j+logback for logging in our application. Earlier we were using jcl+log4j and moved recently.

Due to the high amount of logging in our application, there

Answer 1

2 real options:

• add a cron task on linux (or scheduled one on windows) to clean up your mess (incl. gzip some, if need be).

• buy a larger hard disk and manually perform the maintenance

• +-reduce logging

Disk full is like OOM, you can't know what fails 1st when catch it. Dealing w/ out of memory (or disk) is by preventing it. There could be a lot of cases when extra disk space could be needed and the task failed.