[96585] in RedHat Linux List
Re: root filesystem suddenly FULL!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Wed Oct 28 05:45:11 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:42:57 -0600
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Charles Galpin sniveled:
>Hi All
>
>Please help
>
>I was trying to create a root/boot floppy and was copying things to a floppy
>when I ran out of space. So I tried to copy everything onto the floppy into
>a dir somewhere under home.
>
>All of a sudden my / partition is full, and I can't figure out where the
>space went. it's way oversized at 300MB anyway.
I had the problem of everything getting shadowed in subdirectories. I
had a /root/root directory that had everything in /root copied there.
Also had two accounts that did the same thing and all 3 had a
$HOME/bin that had useless stuff in them. I trashed everything in all
of the subdirectories that I didn't need dual copies of and freed lotsa
space.
Possibly this is the problem you're having.
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