on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > Scarletdown wrote: > > > > There is a hidden file called kde3-errors; which at this moment is > > 73.8GB in size. I will now hit Reload... > > > > It has increased to 75.3GB > > rm -f kde3-errors ; ln -s /dev/null kde3-errors
That's actually bad advice in this case. The problem being that if the file is still open, 'rm -f' won't actually free the space. You _will_ lose the convenience of being able to modify the data by its filename. The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". Deleting and linking should be done when KDE isn't running (e.g.: from console). lsof and fuser can be useful commands in this situation as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks.] -- Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III)
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