Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Lisi Reisz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > > resulting > > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Lisi Reisz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is Most comments in that thread lead you to the correct con

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me > that this is overflow. I therefore need to do some

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Carmen Marcela Alegria C.
--- El mié 3-dic-08, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > De:: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Re: /tmp accidentally filled > A: debian-women@lists.debian.org > Fecha: miércoles, 3 diciembre, 2008, 5:36 pm > 2008/12/3 Simon V

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/3 Simon Valiquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is probably some exception, but in most cases you can safely delete > everything in /tmp without any major problems. Don't delete sockets! KDE likes to keep sockets in /tmp. Deleting them will make your KDE session unstable. I can't think o

Re: /tmp accidentally filled - SOLVED, thanks to the help

2008-12-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-12-03 kello 17:10 +, Lisi Reisz kirjoitti: > As a result of the suggestions made on this list, I rebooted into the CLI, > checked, and /tmp was completely empty. I then rebooted into the GUI - > and /tmp had the same files, by name. But it is no longer reported as 100% > full, and

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Simon Valiquette
Lisi Reisz un jour écrivit: 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 wrongl

Re: /tmp accidentally filled - SOLVED, thanks to the help

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
As a result of the suggestions made on this list, I rebooted into the CLI, checked, and /tmp was completely empty. I then rebooted into the GUI - and /tmp had the same files, by name. But it is no longer reported as 100% full, and there do not seem to be any more problems. Thanks, guys :-) Li

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:50AM +, 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

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the > > resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp an

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Alba Ferri
Hi Lisi, I've install my Debian with very little space in the / partition (I guess I didn't pay much attention on what i was doing) and I get space overflow frecuently :( Searching posible solutions I found what Kevin says, but not as nice, thanks Kevin to point the pipeline! But I found two mor

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:46:32AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Here's another simpleton question. :-( > > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is > overflow. I therefore need to do s

/tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
Here's another simpleton question. :-( I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the resulting garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is overflow. I therefore need to do some more deleting. But I am ashamed to say that I have not explored