Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> Any money that you are running Mandrake 7.1? I had the same problem. It
> also screws your /var/log/news directory.
I have nothing to offer but you've won the guess the distro quiz :-)
- I managed to fix it using the 1st tip I received.
JYP
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Howard.
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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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