-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote: > Another 9.2 showstopper! > > Two days in, the use of 9.2 was totally stopped by a 100% full root > directory, a situation which is essentially unrecoverable for all but > super-experts.
So, only super experts are able to use the rescue option. Oh, I forgot, you missed that option. Come on Ron, please don't be so dramatic on every problem you have, until you can actually provide a useful bug report. > > / is a 5GB partition which returned 7.2 GB to du -s / (probably due to > the inclusion of /proc). Try the -x option then. > > Investigation of this partition from another 9.1 partition showed this > to be caused by 103,900 files of the form /root/<a word>.nnnnn having > beeen created by root in the /root directory, all of which were of zero > length except two. The reserved-to-root space for recovery operations > in / was also all consumed. So, what created these then? When were they created? I have never seen files like this. > I used 9.1 KDE from a booted 9.1 LM partition to delete them all from > the 9.2 mounted partition. They were all deleted, but left KDE in a > hung condition, which had to be killed with the read target icon. > > This condition also occurred from time to time in 9.1 but I found it > undiagnosable, since whatever was reserving copious wads of space on / > left no file directory entries, hidden or otherwise. Never seen this. Are you sure you haven't got some cron job of your own running that is doing this. If you (the only one seeing this) can't diagnose it, how do you expect anyone else to diagnose it???? Regards, Buchan P.S. Ron, please excuse the last two lines of my sig, but I thought since the samba3 packages in contrib were built on my own cooker box and are signed by my GPG sig, some people might want to have some evidence of my GPG key fingerprint. This applies to the samba packages on the samba FTP mirrors too. Without the 2 lines regarding GPG, my sig is indeed 4 lines, with a nice -- seperator for intelligent mail clients. - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/kQq6rJK6UGDSBKcRAnXYAKCdkaq9a5A7ptw/JUWPNvtGhJHJxwCgxp// QTNQEAeUdi75uOjHG/ar6Xk= =6hfb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
