On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now):
No room on / [0] expecting [20000]
I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new.
Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X.
Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened.
Thanks.
If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help.
There could be a few things using up your / partition.
You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted.
It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs.
It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g.
tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp
will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files.
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