Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
; > Miark > Registered Linux user #197870 > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:25 PM > Subject: [newbie] Disk filling up > > > Hi list.

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Miark
riginal Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Disk filling up > Hi list. > > Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an > attachment from s

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Thanks Alex, but that wasn't it either. But we've got to be getting close. This is very weird! Mark On Friday 22 December 2000 11:10, you wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2000 04:29, you wrote: > > Anthony, > > > > Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you > > suggested.

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
directory will let you find the offending files much > > > quicker. > > > > > > Just my $.02. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: &

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 22 December 2000 04:29, you wrote: > Anthony, > > Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you > suggested. That was pretty awesome except it didn't help me find what > the cause of filled disk was. It remains a mystery. And I checked > everything very thoroughly to

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the > offending directory will let you find the offending files much quicker. > > Just my $.02. > > Chris > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
y will let you find the offending files much > > quicker. > > > > Just my $.02. > > > > Chris > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Anthony, Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you suggested. That was pretty awesome except it didn't help me find what the cause of filled disk was. It remains a mystery. And I checked everything very thoroughly too. I seearched down thru the list twice to make sure I d

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Cioffi
uot;Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk filling up > I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at > the moment. Anyways, type &quo

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi list. > > Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an > attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to > attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! > > Anyway, things didn't go well.

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Anthony
I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Anyways, type "ls -SalR | more" and it'll list all the files sorted by size in each directory. So you can look and see which files are taking up the most space. It's seperated by directory however, so if you

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Look for a file named "core" or one that begins with "core". These are core dumps, left for debugging purposes but are of little use to us. They are most often left in your user directory. They can be safely deleted. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:25, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi list. > > Something strang

[newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list. Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! Anyway, things didn't go well. X crashed and "something" happened

[newbie] Disk filling up - HELP!

1999-08-21 Thread Wayne Boaz
My hard drive is filling up with error messages and I don't know why! The .xsession-errors files filled my drive tonight and they only have one entry, repeated over and over: KCharset: Wrong charset! That's it! Does anyone know what this is about? Over 2GB of errors in 3 days!! Please respond d