The other day my PC randomly threw an error saying my hard drive was full. I quickly deleted some games so it wouldn’t freeze and then went to look wtf happened to see the xorg.log file was over 200 gigs!! I deleted it and rebooted and was fine.

But what in the world would cause this??

All AMD system, Linux mint.

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    4 hours ago

    Sometimes the log can be, let’s say less useful. The I’d check the monitor cable. And if the log starts growing after suspend-resume, as that can be buggy.

    dmesg (as root or using sudo) prints out all kernel messages since boot, and can also be useful. Xorg errors are usually hardware or driver problems.

    Also if you messed with bios… Like the pcie settings.