On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:53:39AM -0700, Michael Lewis wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot the disk usage:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 1492311 1416797 0 100% /
> /dev/hdc 556054 556054 0 100% /mnt
Ok. /dev/hdc is your cdrom, I suppose, and you have one big partition
that holds everything. And it is most definitely full... (the entry for
/dev/hda6: It says the partition has a size of 1492311KB, of which
1416797KB are used and 0KB available (the difference is due to the fact
that a certain amount is put aside for root, so that root always has a
chance of repairing the system), it's used 100% (surprise!) and mounted
on "/", i.e. the topmost directory).
> Thats what It said before I removed the files too.
??? Then the core file was probably a lot smaller than you thought.
Either that or you still have some process running which is continuously
gobbling up disk space - but I find that unlikely, as you said you
rebooted. Hm. Odd.
> du -s /tmp:
> 9 /tmp
>
> du -s /var/tmp:
> 1 /var/tmp
Ok, that means neither /var/tmp, nor /tmp are the culprits, as those
usages are very low. Hm... <scratches head> How about "du -s /var"?
No, wait a minute - when the crash happened, were you logged into the
personal login? In that case, a prime suspect is your home directory
(didn't think of that - on all my machines that's a separate
partition), so check your home directory. "du -s /home" and
"du -s /home/YOURUSERNAME" would give high numbers then. If that's the
case, check through your home directory and see whether there are any
unsual, large files around, prefereably with the right date (i.e. the
date when the crash ocurred). Make sure you also check the hidden files.
If you can't find anything unusual in your home directory itself, you
can run "du |less" in your home directory, which will give you the full
list of all sub-directories and their sizes. That might point to
something.
> When I was at /root ]# I did an ls -al and that's where I found the core
> files. I also have a personal login I use instead of root.
Ok, that's grand.
> I checked /usr and there are only directories in there.
That's the way it should be.
HTH,
Thomas
(who now has another reason for having /home on a separate partition...
;-) )
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