From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AE0D1382C5 for ; Fri, 14 May 2021 05:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB6F5E086E; Fri, 14 May 2021 05:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg1-f177.google.com (mail-pg1-f177.google.com [209.85.215.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 838D1E0848 for ; Fri, 14 May 2021 05:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg1-f177.google.com with SMTP id c21so23366615pgg.3 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 22:06:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=jq+cjqB/1q1IP9zVAD1wJooeztb3Q/BiYMMTMbvwowA=; b=cKxnIv1PHFVUI++9LuQnNc3cT3BYBDk1pQhg9cKJYAltYMuqWc/EvRzuiWXLusvc5F VelUYNJCDoAPqLXgZ1QuQq6D9gG0ZyRMPA44dMqyizaaCa5oM42IDJ6Vf+h68l05aoV2 S4vKW68JBc+hSyw1OZLiR2zXCFKKCld/g8TWmNxcC4hi0CgDbePMRSHCehY1k6J6oKg5 kei6gzX0gUjD7tXiJ4hFR5q3Q0hkdriAGdjjfTB/62nYn0LRJHKK77Fx7xBcSZ1IBPbS a+Drudp9WA5J8nHrwg0I/8bAU5cho8ojAdZz6W3noKPh6vWqSP7N641ljKldR/P/hUEf HX2A== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531cxLdxrGHcj5ZaY7ZwyZk8h3sP0TRM2sn9kjKcB+kVXiKS9q1T EauP0rg1upIbyegshnWBKKn9E8A9xwbC8Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzl2zb5QjcpfkYxwsmeUoRZ9D35OBQPIw1DwsZy/9J86/fD+7TYFK3oHO38vX1jJQgjzssrGQ== X-Received: by 2002:a63:9d43:: with SMTP id i64mr40462474pgd.205.1620968780194; Thu, 13 May 2021 22:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.231.8.222] ([24.121.29.90]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b3sm3151394pfv.61.2021.05.13.22.06.18 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 May 2021 22:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Jack Message-ID: <188d58ad-fc69-e017-dc3b-eec2aa17570e@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 23:06:02 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US-large X-Archives-Salt: 94e07c9b-ce9e-409a-a0dd-01812a27945b X-Archives-Hash: 1c7c4661a3efff4a46702098d8346428 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? "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.