> * 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/
I was going to say the same thing. I had a similar problem recently because exim was trying to deliver root mail to a mailbox that had the wrong permissions set. It made exim thrash pretty badly. -Nelson
