Sarang Lakare wrote:
> 
> thank you guys for all your help.. I guess it was the inodes.. But I don't
> understand one thing.. why is my /var/log/mail  and news directories so
> huge????? who is responsible for them? I guess they are consuming all the
> inodes!!!

Sounds like a job for ReiserFS

> btw, I said \rm -rf /var/log/mail. It started deleting lots of stuff (I
> could hear the hdd sound).. so I stopped in between (^C) , now there are 2%
> Inodes left and I can write to the disk... but I want to know what should I
> do about the mail and news directories.. how do i fix them.. and If i
> delete them using rm, whats the guarantee that its not deleting anything
> else on the FS?

News and mail will get huge if mis-configured so they keep everything
and have nonrealistic limits set - or is this machine a mail server with
lots of users that is overloaded?

BillK

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