Hi,
I had a problem with a full disk and although I did solve it, I'me left with a
few questions.
1 - The problem was caused by a huge (>200 Mega) file named
/root/.xsession-errors. Can anyone tell me how and why this file was created
(apart from the obvious meaning of its name) and how to prevent this happening
in the future?
2 - After deleting the file, I still got error messages about a full device, so
I wanted to run fsck -A to see what was going on. I got a message saying that
it's dangerous to run this on a mounted file system, so I stopped. Should I
have continued?
3 - Since the only other way I could think of to run fsck was to re-boot, I
tried that and couldn't even re-boot - I guess lack of space was preventing the
system from writing logs or something. So the only solution (as much as I hated
to do it) was to hit the RESET button. After re-booting, everything was OK and
I now have plenty of space on the device. Again, was there a better way to do
this?
BTW - because of the no-space problem, I couldn't even run man fsck or send an
e-mail for help :-(
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Date: 17-Oct-2000 Time: 11:36:26
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