Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:51:40AM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > > > The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". > > > What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this > somethin

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:51:40 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: >> >> The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". > > > What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this > something else? It's normal output

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this something else? > lsof and fuser can be useful commands in this situation as well. I was more concer

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-27 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 06:21: > However, first suggestion remains finding out what it is that KDE's > complaining about, and fixing that problem or filing a bug, if > appropriate. ...and if you have problems to view the contents of a 75-Gigs-textfile: Use "tail" to v

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:24:10PM -0800, Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > > >1310872 /home/scarletdown > > > >3664968 /home/scarletdown > > > >So, it looks like the problem child is somewhere in my home directory, > >considering that is the only line that is diffe

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > Scarletdown wrote: > > > > There is a hidden file called kde3-errors; which at this moment is > > 73.8GB in size. I will now hit Reload... > > > > It has increased to 75.3GB > > rm

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Scarletdown
Bruce Sass wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: After looking at my home directory in Konqueror and switching to Detailed List View and selecting Show Hidden Files, I found the source of my frustration. There is a hidden file called kde3-errors; which at this moment is 73.8GB in size. I

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scarletdown: > Scarletdown wrote: > > There is a hidden file called kde3-errors; which at this moment is > 73.8GB in size. I will now hit Reload... > > It has increased to 75.3GB rm -f kde3-errors ; ln -s /dev/null kde3-errors -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is in

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Scarletdown
Scarletdown wrote: 1310872 /home/scarletdown 3664968 /home/scarletdown So, it looks like the problem child is somewhere in my home directory, considering that is the only line that is different between the two. After looking at my home directory in Konqueror and switching to Detailed List Vi

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Scarletdown
André Carezia wrote: Scarletdown wrote: Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet. Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) W

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:40:14PM -0800, Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my > hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the > partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) >

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread André Carezia
Scarletdown wrote: Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet. Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) What's the output of com

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:40:14PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet. > > Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my > hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the > partition in question shows as 100% used (red

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:40:14PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my > hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the > partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) > > This has happene

Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-25 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet. Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) This has happened twice now. The first time