Are you saying that even if you logged on as root you couldn't delete
files from /tmp? Or could you delete the files, but the disk didn't get
any emptier? If the latter was your problem, it could be that some
program or programs had the files open that you were trying to delete.
Rebooting the machine is one crude way of stopping those programs and
thereby making the disk space they were using available.
Another likely place for files that could fill / is /var/log. For
example, /var/log/messages could be very large. And I wouldn't expect the
disk space it uses to become available even if you delete it because
syslogd will keep the disk file open until you reboot (or at least do
"service syslog restart").
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dennis Lewis wrote:
> Vora writes...
>
> > then i logged out, tried to log back into kde. i couldn't. i
> > restarted, and
> > was told "not enough space in /tmp". x,lpd, mysql, xfs would not start,
> > email died. everything died! my "/" was 100% filled! i tried to find out
> > what was taking up all this space (almost 2gb free on "/" now missing) and
> > could not find it (tried du many ways). finally, i found the hidden
> > .gnome-desktop directory, found Trash.gmc, and found all the files that i
> > was trying to delete. i tried to rm them, but "rm -r *" would not
>
> I have the exact same problem and am looking for some help. I have only
> one box, an old P2/350 with a 'small' hard drive (10GB). Being a
> total newbie, I let the installer partition the drive using the default
> config. Here's a shot of my partitions:
>
> > df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 250M 251M 0 100% /
> /dev/hda1 50M 3.5M 44M 8% /boot
> /dev/hda6 3.5G 97M 3.1G 3% /home
> /dev/hda5 3.5G 1.1G 2.2G 33% /usr
> /dev/hda7 250M 137M 101M 58% /var
>
> Logrotate and a couple other cron jobs complain to me every morning
> about the lack of space.
>
> I have tried all that I know to remove the chaff from the / mount and
> am fresh out of ideas. My last desperation idea to repartition the drive
> and start over. So I am looking any kind of tips, tricks, you name it.
>
> I have this box running semi-remotely (on the other side of the office)
> and use Webmin (www.webmin.com) for all that I need to do. However,
> while I was setting up and learning Linux, I had been using Gnome as
> my 'windows-like' interface. I suspect that I may have some gnome-junk in
> there.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> Dennis Lewis
>
>
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