On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke
jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe, and it
probably is when simply
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe, and it
probably is when simply running on the console.
As a long term solution, if you wish to clear /tmp every
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke
jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are needed. In single user mode it should be safe, and it
probably is when simply
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:34:40 -0400, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Clarke
jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Arthur Chance wrote:
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:41:16 -0400, bdsf...@att.net wrote:
While there may be important stuff in /tmp at the moment you are running
the system for some reason (like X, apparently), there shouldn't be
anything in there that needs to survive a reboot, if that gives you an
indication of the
I also understodd the meaning of /tmp in this way - does not need
to survive reboot. For things that have a kind of temporary nature,
but have to survivve a reboot, /var/tmp is usually used.
I did not know that. I aliased /var/tmp to /tmp which is tmpfsed
I'm guessing I should undo that -
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:00:43 +, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
I also understodd the meaning of /tmp in this way - does not need
to survive reboot. For things that have a kind of temporary nature,
but have to survivve a reboot, /var/tmp is usually used.
I did not know that. I
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Caleb Stein writes:
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem
is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
108%. What files can I delete to free some space?
Start by
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Caleb Stein calebzst...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem is full,
so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at 108%. What files can I
delete to free some space?
du -chx /
to view all and their sizes
you
On 10/09/10 17:58, Caleb Stein wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
[Full /tmp discussion snipped]
So is it safe to do rm -rf /tmp/*?
Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp
that are needed. In single user mode it
On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Caleb Stein wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Caleb Stein writes:
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem
is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
108%. What files
Caleb Stein writes:
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem
is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
108%. What files can I delete to free some space?
Start by checking the contents of /tmp.
Any *.core in /root you don't
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:38:41 -0700, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org
wrote:
On 10/09/10 17:58, Caleb Stein wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com
wrote:
[Full /tmp discussion snipped]
So is it safe to do rm -rf /tmp/*?
Not if running an X desktop, as
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:40:20 -0700, Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com wrote:
Ok, so it won't hurt X as long as I clear /tmp/ while X isn't running?
Correct, no problem.
It *may* be possible that some programs save files to /tmp, even
if it is NOT to be assumed that those files survive a reboot.
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:16:11 -0700, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:40:20 -0700, Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com
wrote:
Ok, so it won't hurt X as long as I clear /tmp/ while X isn't running?
Correct, no problem.
It *may* be possible that some programs save files to
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem is full,
so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at 108%. What files can
I delete to free some space?
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Caleb Stein writes:
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem
is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
108%. What files can I delete to free some space?
Start by checking the contents of /tmp.
Any *.core in /root you don't
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