On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:58:16PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Turns out another process had put a lot of temp files in /tmp filling up > the root partition . . . . Once those files were deleted, everything > worked okay for all users. Not sure why the root user was working when > the other users weren't, though ...
Unices by default save a portion of each file system for root's use. So if a file system fills up for any reason, root's account can still work (and presumably root can troubleshoot the problem that filled up the file system in the first place). Cordially, Mark S. Reglewski
