Hi, > Van: Igor Cicimov [mailto:icici...@gmail.com] > > Restart syslog.
Thanks that worked. >> On 30/01/2013 11:54 PM, "Bonno Bloksma" <b.blok...@tio.nl> wrote: >> >> I had a problem that generated A LOT of messages in syslog and it grew >> untill the entire /var partition had 0 bytes free. >> The /var/log/syslog file was over 4GB large. I deleted it using a simple rm >> /var/log/syslog command and the file is indeed no longer there. >>The du /var/log -s command shows a decrease of over 4GB so that seems to >>confirm it but.... >> >> There are still 0 bytes free on the /var partition as the df command shows. [...] >> Should I just unmount /var, and run fsck.ext3 /var or is there something >> else I should do first? >> Is there maybe some background process that is still running through all >> inodes freeing up the 4+GB diskspace? >> >> Bonno Bloksma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/89d1798a7351d040b4e74e0a043c69d71cc5d...@hglexch-01.tio.nl