Re: [newbie] Large files with name Magic*

2001-12-23 Thread Hal Wigoda
My hunch, vague as it is, sounds like cookie files, either from Netscape or youe windowing service. > Hi, > I ran out of space on my linux partition (nasty business). When I went > looking for the reason, I found 5 very large (> 1 Gigabyte) files in > /tmp. These files all had the name Magic*.

[newbie] Large files with name Magic*

2001-12-23 Thread ai4a
Hi, I ran out of space on my linux partition (nasty business). When I went looking for the reason, I found 5 very large (> 1 Gigabyte) files in /tmp. These files all had the name Magic*. I deleted the files and recovered the space. Before I deleted the files df showed 100% usage. After I deleted