i was only able to delete them by mv-ing them to another partition. after moving them, then / was only 45% full, instead of 100% and then i was able to start kde and then i deleted them from file manager (didn't move them to trash...i'm ignoring the trash from now on!). it wasn't a fun night last night.
vora > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven J. Yellin > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: re: Full partition > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seawolf-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > > > > -- > Steven Yellin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
