On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:59:05PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: [...] > Reluctantly I rebooted the computer, just on a whim. The bootup process > noted some corrupted files and I had to run fsck / as root to fix the > broken files. When the system was up and running again, I found that I > had to reconfigure Evolution for some reason, as if it had lost my user > information. All of my mailboxes and filters as well as old e-mails and > contact and calendar information were in place still, fortunately. I > also ran df -h again and saw that /home is back down to 44%.
A possibility is that some process is madly stuffing data into a temporary file that has been unlinked but keot open (and consequently not freed). This would explain why the space reappeared after a rebootm since files with no hard links are freed when the file descriptor closes. Alas, I don't know how to detect this condition, though I expect the answer lies somewhere in /proc. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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