On Monday 16 December 2002 02:01 am, HAOYANG LIU wrote: > After the meal, I saw an error message on my Redhat 7.3 desktop > "no space left on device". I tried to ignore it but it > kept appearing so I rebooted my computer. while it's being rebooted, > I saw > touch: careating '/var/lock/subsys/xinetd' No space left on device [Fail] > touch: careating '/var/lock/subsys/lpd' No space left on device [Fail] > and so on. > Then I noticed startx wouldn't run as it used to be and I had to log on via > the text screen. Surpringly, I found I couldn't create new fils under "/", > nor the /var directory and the error message was always no space left. > However, I still could create files under my own direcotry at /home. I used > df to check the diskspace and saw only 40% of "/" was used! > I have a lot of things to do and I do need my linux come back... > What shall I do now? > Help, please!
First, post the output of df and mount. My first guess would be that you have / mounted read-only. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D Whenever I think I've accomplished a lot, I just remind DK KD myself that when Mozart was my age -- he'd been dead DDDD for 29 years! - Howard Ruff -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
