kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, > > "Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense.
Memory in the sense of storage space, in the hard disk. > Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or > partitions on you hard drive? > Did you delete an open file? If you delete a file while another program > is writing to it, the space is not reallocated until the writing process > is terminated. In this case, you may be able to locate the open process > with: > > - lsof > - ps > > If lsof shows the process, you can kill it. Otherwise, switching to > single user mode, or as a last resort, rebooting the system, may reset > things. rebooting did not fix it. That was the first thing I did.
