On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Bevan <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for all your help > > the commands you guys gave me were helpful i have tracked it down to a cron > job i had set up to act like an alarm clock a wee while ago (the alarm was a > piece hard rock music but because i had turned off the speakers i didn't > realise it was still working. once i deleted that cron job the issue has > been resolved. Still dont understand why it would fill up the system > partition though. >
Well if you worked out what file was increasing in size rapidly, you would be able to work it out. Perhaps your cron script was generating a lot of errors and filling /var/log ? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
