HI, I wrote:
> > In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three > > sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full! Thanks for the info received on what to do. I immediatly found that i had been keeping copies of the CDs I'd been burning, and fixed that, which took care of the immediate problem. Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: > seems like the allocated space for the / partition was too > small. this happened to me when i allocated just 100MB to that > partition and /tmp was heavily used. I think it may be big enough if i maintain it well. And am using this oportunbity to learn do this. Question: Coming from a Windows env. I am familiar with easily knowing which file is on which storage device. I understand that it is nice to have a virtual environment - to hell with knowing what devices run it, however as the administrator i need to be able to know what is on each device. How can i check that? > first thing to do is to > make sure that no unnecessary files are hogging the space in > /tmp. I have posted of the contents tof /temp below, using $ ls -al what might I need to explore further there? > there are tools out there but i have no experience using them. > the route i always take is to re-install Mandrake, use expert > install (its really easy if you pay attention and read what's > in there), and pay extra attention when it comes to the part > that you partition your hard disk. Hmm, this does seem complex as I did not set up my own machine. I am tempted to give it a go For learning on another machine, not this one which I work on! ~~~ On Monday 28 January 2002 12:18 pm, Erylon wrote: > Since your hda5 is larger than 3 gig, I would hazard a guess > that your /var/log files are filling it. Check your /var/log > and see if it isn't really large (500 K would be about the max > it should be). If that's where the problem lies, you can > safely delete all the gzipped log files, and edit your > /etc/logrotate.conf to prevent it from happening again. > Remember, the log files belong to user root. > > Just a guess, > > e. Thanks for that. will do some pruning. I will also explore the /etc/logrotate.conf I can see that as the user i have authority to delete some files but not others. I can go into root and do it all but is that wise? Some of the files have permission for an admin group? Should I as root give myself admin authority? This is getting a bit off topic but I d be interested in a discussion on how to work with the root / user potential of Linux. Perhaps there is a good article on it somewhere? Walter ~~~ 597 walter@psybernet:/tmp (03:53:32) $ ls -al total 88 drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 Jan 31 03:41 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jan 14 03:45 ../ -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 20 16:34 dcop245ZXu -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 22 22:57 dcop2nylRB -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 30 04:39 dcop8x61gw -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 23 16:15 dcopaJPjFH -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 20 22:35 dcopcavrYu -rw------- 1 walter walter 221 Jan 30 15:24 dcopqdJe7u -rw------- 1 walter walter 223 Jan 28 04:16 dcopwMSndN drwxrwxrwt 2 xfs xfs 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .font-unix/ drwx------ 2 walter walter 4096 Jan 26 01:11 .gftp-walter/ -rw------- 1 walter walter 354 Jan 29 05:07 gtkrc-Q0p13A drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .ICE-unix/ drwx------ 9 walter walter 4096 Jan 31 03:27 kde-walter/ drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 06:01 ksocket-root/ drwx------ 2 walter walter 4096 Jan 31 03:41 ksocket-walter/ drwx------ 3 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 15:25 mcop-walter/ srwxrwxrwx 1 walter walter 0 Jan 31 03:31 medusa-idled-service= drwx------ 2 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 15:25 orbit-walter/ srwxrwxrwx 1 walter walter 0 Jan 30 15:56 OSL_PIPE_501_SingleOfficeIPC_1666104904= drwx------ 2 walter walter 4096 Jan 28 13:58 .sawfish-walter/ drwxrwxrwx 3 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 04:21 soffice.tmp/ -r--r--r-- 1 root walter 11 Jan 30 15:24 .X0-lock drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .X11-unix/ 597 walter@psybernet:/tmp (03:53:32)
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