Shoot, sorry, for some reason I hadn't missed the part about this being Linux... I saw the 98 and my brain assumed Windows 98 :-(
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Chris O'Connell <[email protected]>wrote: > this may be kind of a shot in the dark, but check the maximum size of your > swap file? > > A utility such as this may help: > http://windirstat.info/ > > Good luck, let us know what you find! > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a >> pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk >> space. sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less >> that 1GB out of 40 available on /home. so i went to /home, >> but du -s showed only 21GB in use. ??? i shut down and went >> to bed puzzled. >> >> today, i fired up and df shows 21GB in use. >> >> it may not be related, but yesterday i was struggling with >> some bizarre behaviour of mysql, which allowed me to enter >> rows with indices 0 1 3 4 5 into a table, but steadfastly >> refused to enter the row with index 2. today row 2 enters >> fine. >> >> does anyone have any suggestions as to what i may be >> experiencing? >> >> tia, >> ole dan >> >> j. daniel moylan >> 84 harvard ave >> brookline, ma 02446-6202 >> 617-232-2360 (tel) >> 810-454-1823 (fax) >> [email protected] >> www.moylan.us >> [death to html bloat!] >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
