It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df. What does the output from df say?
If you are out of disk space, do you have a spare partition available? If so you may be ok. If not, you may be screwed. What does the output from fdisk -l say? On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +0000, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: > "No space left on device". > > I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: > > ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ > corrupted for block group 4 > ... last message repeated 207 times > ... last message repeated 133 times > and so on. > > Help! What can I do to resolve this without rebooting the machine? > Well, I guess I could reboot it, but it is very far away from me and if it > gets stuck during the reboot I'd have an even bigger problem. Besides, > there are some users logged in and I'd hate to kick them out. :-( > > Please send help soon! > Thanks so much in advance, > Andy. > > -- > Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key > o _ _ _ > --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) > ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ > ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
