* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 11:34 +0200: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:13, John Foster wrote: > > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I > > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have > > been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a > > disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of my Linux > > systems. I checked and sure enough the disk is showing 100% full. I > > moved a bunch of old archives (about 7%) off it and left it sit for a > > day. When I came back it was completely full again. Any ideas on how to > > locate the problem. I have NO Clue. > > Thanks! > > John > I would start looking at /tmp, then migrate to /var/log then, and this is > totally off the wall, in ~/.kde . . . Friend of mine just released nearly 2GB > of room in a file called something like ~/.kde/dev_null . . . We still don't > know how/what the deal was . . .
[rearranged quoting order] We had a disk filled with cron generated messages to root, never delivered from /var/spool/mail/ Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]