Richard Tango-Lowy wrote on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:51:21PM -0400 :
> My LM9.0 SMP server locked up hard this evening, and I couldn't get it
> to boot and stay up.
> 
> Booting into single-user and (after some research) doing "df -i" showed
> 650K out of 650K inodes in use. I tracked them down to
> /var/spool/cups/tmp. There were many, many, gs_* files there. (I wrote a
> script to remove them and it's been at it for several hours. Release 80K
> so far).

cd /var/spool/cups/tmp
find . -exec rm -f {} \;

Don't do -rf because it will try to remove . and .. and that could be a
bit of a problem :)  The above command seems like it should work faster
because it won't try to sort the directory entries.

Blue skies...                   Todd
-- 
  Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.   http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because 
  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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