From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E28BP-0000Mz-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:00:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78DxNZ2024747; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:59:23 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78DsxNF016395 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:54:59 GMT Received: from mhonline.net (cpe-66-66-109-122.rochester.res.rr.com [66.66.109.122]) by ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j78DtGIU006089 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:55:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chrisf@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mhonline.net (8.13.3/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j78DsvGk023758 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:54:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:54:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Fisk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space In-Reply-To: <42F74B6D.2090300@gmx.ch> Message-ID: References: <200508081259.06214.gentoo@depardo.ch> <200508080857.59054.nbensa@gmx.net> <42F74B6D.2090300@gmx.ch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 10111d0a-0ba2-4dde-9c50-17f919b0593e X-Archives-Hash: e9512c4b8727d358958734ae4032f7c9 On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: >> Check your temp partitions... > > What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? > > Just curious... He didn't read the whole message, saw disk full and said oh, his temp partition is overflowing. The correct answer here is that you have to do an fsck. The best solution is to just be at the console of the machine, where you can boot into single user mode and run the fsck. If that is not an option you'll need to make sure everyone is off the machine (Maintenance window?), stop all the services except the network services and sshd then remount the partition readd only and run the fsck. quick rundown of commands: rc-update show /etc/init.d/service stop #for each non-repair essential service ps auwx #to verify that all the services are stopped that need to be mount -o remount,ro / fsck.ext3 /dev/hdxy mount -o remount,rw / /etc/init.d/services start #for each service you stopped At the end of this I really prefer doing a reboot (And fsck may tell you a reboot is required). Might want to test the procedure a few times on a non-critical machine, but that should get you through the process. Christopher Fisk -- Adelai: A package is just a box until it's delivered. cBlog: http://chris.uasoft.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list