On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 6:47 am, Frederic Rooms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am glad to tell you that you guessed the problem: /dev/hda6 is 100% full.
> Now, my questions are:
>
>     1. How can I free some space ?
>     2. What is /dev/hda6 ?
>     3. Why is full right now ?
>


Lets see if my ability to guess matches et's

I predict that looking at /etc/fstab you will see that /dev/hda6 is mapped to 
either '/' or '/var' and that looking at /var/log  you will see you have an 
enormous system log.

I also predict that the cause of the huge log is the cron job which is 
supposed to archive the log daily is failing. This can be tested by opening a 
root terminal and typing 'logrotate'  (without quotes)

If I am correct come back and I'll show you how to fix it.

(I make this guess because I had the same problem in 8.0
ML8.2 seems to be fine)

Note: If you cannot boot because of the full partition. Boot up from your boot 
floppy, and then mount /dev/hda6  You will then be able to browse the 
directories and delete some unnecessary files. You should then be able to 
boot normally.

HTH

derek



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