Any money that you are running Mandrake 7.1? I had the same problem. It
also screws your /var/log/news directory.
A df -i will show that you are out of inodes.
Do
find /var/log/mail -exec rm -f {} \;
It will take time but it will kill them off eventually.
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem where I can not create any files in my / partition
> although df doesn't show any problem
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 1.0G 732M 249M 75% /
> /dev/hda6 860M 169M 647M 21% /home
>
> I've located the culprit, /var/log/mail on /dev/hda1
>
> ie: ls -l /var/log/mail does not respond
>
> if I try 'rm *.1' it returns
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> output from debugfs of /var/log/mail
> -- snip
> 52684 (52) mail.info.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.2.gz.4.gz.2.gz.1.1
> 65767 (52) mail.info.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.4.gz.5.gz.2.gz.1
> 65673 (52) mail.info.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.2.gz.5.gz.3.gz.1.1
> 65709 (68) mail.info.1.gz.2.gz.1
> 31056 (52) mail.info.1.gz.2.gz.2.gz.2.gz.2.gz.4.gz.1.1
> ......
> -- snip
> Looks like the logrotate cron is stuffed and I'll fix that ;-)
> the list is huge and I can delete files individually in debugfs
>
> I'm unable to use wild cards *.1, rmdir is not yet implemented in
> debugfs:
>
> any suggestion to remove the entire content of that directory?
>
> Thanks
>
> JYP
>
>
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