Free-space driven log rotation on linux?

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Published on 2012-03-23T17:05:07Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 17:31 UTC
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Someone just asked me 'how long should we keep logs for our application', and my answer was 'until the disk is full' as there's no reason to throw them away other than running out of space.

However, standard logrotate wants us to specify a specific period + number of rotations. Is there something similar that would let us say "rotate daily, and keep as much history as you like until there is only 5% space free"?

The platform is Redhat Linux.

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