On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > 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. > > Sir Robin > > -- > "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." > - Robert Anton Wilson > > Robin Turner > IDMYO > Bilkent Univeritesi > Ankara 06533 > Turkey > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin > > > > For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up.
I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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