On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David E.Fox wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2001 19:12, you wrote:
>
> > seems like the first partition (hda1) is filling up and I don't know
> > why? I dumped as many old log files as I felt safe doing (which
>
> Well, /var is definitely part of / in your setup, so I would look there,
> particularly in /var/log, see if there are files that are growing without
> bound in there. logrotate should compress older files, and delete files
> that are >30 days old. But you might run out of room before then :(.
>
> Also you might want to look in /tmp.
>
> > Andy
You could also look for a hidden file in your user home directory called
.xsession-errors or something similar. I had to delete one of those a few
weeks back. There was also a rogue netscape process which had been
chuntering on in the background for some time. Deleting them freed up
several hundred megabytes immediately. .xsession-errors never reappeared.
You can use gtop or its KDE equivalent to look for suspicious background
processes, but be very careful about what you delete. You might want to
seek further advice.
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Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
