Hi Derek,
I did what you said. /dev/hda6 is mapped to "/". I did not find an enormous
log file. But I looked in my /tmp directory and saw three files with the
same properties:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rooms rooms 624 800 000 July 29 name
where name is: magicFKEYm7*, magicadgKOC* and
magicMWykf*.
This date corresponds to the crash. I was also using scilab with imagemagick
=> I think that I can delete these three files and get back some free space.
What do you think ?
Thank you,
Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] no more X server
> On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 6:47 am, Frederic Rooms wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am glad to tell you that you guessed the problem: /dev/hda6 is 100%
full.
> > Now, my questions are:
> >
> > 1. How can I free some space ?
> > 2. What is /dev/hda6 ?
> > 3. Why is full right now ?
> >
>
>
> Lets see if my ability to guess matches et's
>
> I predict that looking at /etc/fstab you will see that /dev/hda6 is mapped
to
> either '/' or '/var' and that looking at /var/log you will see you have
an
> enormous system log.
>
> I also predict that the cause of the huge log is the cron job which is
> supposed to archive the log daily is failing. This can be tested by
opening a
> root terminal and typing 'logrotate' (without quotes)
>
> If I am correct come back and I'll show you how to fix it.
>
> (I make this guess because I had the same problem in 8.0
> ML8.2 seems to be fine)
>
> Note: If you cannot boot because of the full partition. Boot up from your
boot
> floppy, and then mount /dev/hda6 You will then be able to browse the
> directories and delete some unnecessary files. You should then be able to
> boot normally.
>
> HTH
>
> derek
>
>
>
>
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