Hello again,
I went in as single user and deleted about 250 Mb of files, and it booted
up fine. When I got in, I ran a df command and it said I had 660Mb left on
/ and about the same on /home. Now, when I rebooted yesterday, I get the
exact same error messages as before and I have not installed anything since
the clean-up. How can I have 660Mb free one day and be out of space the
next, without installing anything, or even doing anything outside of some
html editing and checking email?
( BTW, for those of you using Grub, which I am, you have to boot into
failsafe mode and then into "maintenance" to get in as a single user.
) This took me a while to figure out.
Michael
At 01:18 AM 3/20/01 -0800, David E. Fox wrote:
>On Monday 19 March 2001 11:34, you wrote:
> > /dev/hda6 FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED
> > mounting local filesystems: can't create lock Failed
> > can't create lockfile /etc/mtab~333: No space left on device Failed
>
>It would seem that your filesystem for / is out of disk space. Very bad
>things can happen if your root partition is alllowed to run out of space, and
>you've no doubt discovered one of those. :(
>
>In this situation it appears that you can't mount because the 'table of
>mounted filesystems' appears to be /etc/mtab and that file can't be made
>because there isn't any space. I'm pretty sure this file is built on the fly
>as the system boots.
>
>What to do about it? Boot your system into single-user mode by typing 'linux
>single' if you are using lilo, or use a rescue disk. Then you can mount the
>root filesystem and clean up the mess, and then reboot.
>
> > chmod: /var/run/random-seed: No such file or directory
> > touch: /var/lock/subsys/random: No space left on device
>
>/var should be on its own filesystem for the same reasons - you can't afford
>to let this run out of space.
>
>
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