Hi Des,
You could start with checking, if you indeed have "No space left on
device". The command is:
df -h
it makes an output like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 406M 211M 174M 55% /
/dev/hda1 15M 2.2M 12M 15% /boot
If the Use% is 100% and/or Used is the same as Size, then that file system
is full.
So you will have to make some room.
You could go to /var/spool/mail and clear out your mail file.
You could move or delete some old log files (/var/log/messages.x) to another
device.
You could also try to find out what takes up so much room and move some
stuff to another device.
Whatever you do you will need some room first to operate and that includes
deleting from pine, as (so I assume) pine writes something (perhaps a log)
when you delete stuff with pine.
The commands used would be:
mv <source> <target> # to move files
rm <file> # to delete files
Regards,
Bernhard
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Subject: [SLUG] Problems deleting mail
I am running pine for mail. Each time I try to delete by expunging or
quitting pine, I get the error "Checkpoint file failture: No space left on
device"
I tried to access, read and delete mail from another account - no
problems. I also tried Mutt for mail and that had similar issues - except
that destroyed one mail file completly.
Any ideas? Need more info?
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