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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