kernel log messages and disk space

2005-08-20 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, Observed today, that my machine had utilized ~ 7G of hard drive space (since the last time I saw it, ~ week ago)! The real killers were: # du -hcs /var/log/* | grep -E '^[0-9]*.[0-9]*G' 2.6G/var/log/kern.log.0 2.6G/var/log/messages.0 2.6G/var/log/syslog.0 On inspection each

Re: How do i detect a USB device from the Linux Box

2005-08-20 Thread cr
Assuming it's some sort of storage device you're using - I'd say, *before* unplugging the USB device, you need to un-mount it with the 'umount' command (and wait until the linux prompt comes up on the command line again, to make sure it's finished writing everything to the USB device, *bef