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From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 23:06:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <188d58ad-fc69-e017-dc3b-eec2aa17570e@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJ4EP2LCCRi1qrAE@waltdnes.org>

On 5/13/21 11:01 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:10:08AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
>> Do double check that you log into a directory that doesn't run out of space
>> once a month. That could cause problems also.
>    After the "separate /usr" brouhaha, I gave up and went to one file
> system. We all back up our PC's regularly, don't we? <G>  "fdisk -l"
> shows my "1 terabyte" drive as...
>
> Device          Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
> /dev/sda1        2048 1929381887 1929379840  920G Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda2  1929381888 1953525134   24143247 11.5G Linux swap
>
>    I am *NOT* running out of disk space.  mc (Midnight Commander) shows
> 617 of 905 gigabytes free when logged in as regular user.  663 of 905
> free when logged in as root.  Soon to be several gigabytes more free
> space when I do some cleaning up of obsolete unused cruft accumulated
> over the years.
One thing I've done in a similar situation is to boot to a live image.  
That way, the current system does not mess with anything in /var/log and 
you might find something which would be overwritten by a fresh boot.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12 16:35 [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups Walter Dnes
2021-05-12 18:16 ` Mark Knecht
2021-05-13  2:44   ` Walter Dnes
2021-05-13  2:50     ` Dale
2021-05-13  2:57       ` Mark Knecht
2021-05-13  7:19       ` Walter Dnes
2021-05-13 13:10         ` Mark Knecht
2021-05-14  5:01           ` Walter Dnes
2021-05-14  5:06             ` Jack [this message]
2021-05-13 15:42         ` Neil Bothwick
2021-05-13  5:21     ` Andreas Fink
2021-05-12 21:40 ` Jack
2021-05-13  2:49   ` Walter Dnes

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