I believe the reason for loosing the data is because there was no disc
space to write too. the reboot was done by shutdown -r
In terms of backing up the data, this is possible. I am sure I can find
space on the network somewhere. What I am not sure about, is if I can get
the network card working. The configuration is a toshiba laptop with
xircom pcmcia nic
david
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, David Brett wrote:
>
> > I have run into this a few times now. My disc will fill up for no
> > apparent reason. I though I new which application was causing the
> > problem, but yesterday I found out if it is, it is not the only one.
> > As fast as I freed up disc space something was grabbing it. The
> > only way to solve the problem was to reboot the computer. Once this
> > was done a number of configurations were lost. Data on one
> > applications was lost.
> >
> How did you reboot? Shutdown -r now will normaly do the reboot without
> losing data. Telinit 1 will also shut down all the processes and leave
> you a prompt that you can try and fix things from.
>
> > I running rh 6.2 on a laptop with about 800meg of free disc space.
> > When I run into disc space problem, I shut down all applications and
> > try to find find out what is filling up the disc. I usually can't
> > find out and have to reboot because the system becomes unstable.
> >
> > A second question. I would like to buy a larger hard drive and copy
> > my present installation over to the new drive. How can I do this
> > with out doing a re installation. The reasson I don't want to do
> > the reinstallation is because, a friend of mine had to do alot of
> > customization to get it to work. I don't know everything he did and
> > right now I don't have the time to learn it.
> >
> >
> > david
> >
> >
> If this was a desktop, moding to a larger disk would be easy, but with a
> laptop, it gets a lot harder. You can not just put in a second disk and
> copy everything over. Do you have a way to back up your current drive?
> Or do you have a network connection to another machine that you can
> backup the data too? You best bet would be to backup your current
> system, put in the new drive, and then install a minimal system and do a
> restore of the old setup.
>
> Mikkel
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