On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:34, you wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21, Dave Salovesh wrote: > > My /var partiton is out of inodes on my DNS server. > > > > > > I've tried variations of rm and rmdir, but they all fail for one reason > > or another - "too many arguments" for rm, for one thing, and various > > messages that I'm trying to remove a directory for another - even when I > > -df it or --ignore-fail-on... it. I just want all those files gone. > > > > How to I clear out that directory? > > Did you try : > > rm -rf /var/spool/mail > >
last time i had something similar, i ended up deleting piecemeal, such that rm -f wouldn't give 'too many arguments' fixed with a logrotate update istr stephen
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