On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:50AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote: > > Thanks for your help, Kevin. > > As I said, I have never had to do anything to tmp before. But it has not > cleaned up at boot and the fact that it is 100% full is causing problems. > This is a direct result of the mess I created when I messed up my backup. I > have deleted the bulk of the stuff wrongly placed on my root partition - so > most things are working fine again - and am left with this 100% filled tmp. > > From what you say, I can safely delete the lot? After all, if it should have > been cleaned up automatically, it can't hurt if I clean it up manually?
If you have not rebooted your computer, some running process may be actively using some file in tmp. Also, a 'backup program' may use /tmp to use while is working on the backup, so it may have left stuff there. I'd suggest doing: cd /tmp du -s -m * .*|sort -n so you can see what is the largest items. You hopefully will see a large directory/file left by the backup program and be able to delete that first. Otherwise, I dont recall the way to figure out which /tmp file is NOT being actively used. HTH -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
