Oh well. So much for my prediction abilities:-) I have no idea what those files are, but anything in /tmp is fair game to delete. In fact a cron job is run daily to run 'tmpwatch' which will automatically delete files in /tmp which have not been accessed for more than 240 hours.
derek On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 8:40 am, Frederic Rooms wrote: > Hi Derek, > > I did what you said. /dev/hda6 is mapped to "/". I did not find an enormous > log file. But I looked in my /tmp directory and saw three files with the > same properties: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rooms rooms 624 800 000 July 29 name > > where name is: magicFKEYm7*, magicadgKOC* and > magicMWykf*. > > This date corresponds to the crash. I was also using scilab with > imagemagick => I think that I can delete these three files and get back > some free space. What do you think ? > > Thank you, > > Fred > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:28 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] no more X server > > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- ---- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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