[7489] in Hotline Meeting
Re: merchant.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (salemme@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 21 13:30:03 1992
From: salemme@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 13:29:51 -0500
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
[I sent this to brunnock, but I forgot to cc hotline...sorry. Anne]
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Hi Sean,
In regard to your note to hotline,
> The root file system on merchant.mit.edu is full. I discovered
> this as I was doing backups today.
On logging in remotely, we found a single large file which doesn't
really belong on the root partition. 'ls -l /dev/rtpae' showed:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 2695168 Jan 21 12:16 rtpae
I suspect that you created this inadvertantly yourself (by mistyping
a backup command). If you delete this file, your root partition should
go back to the normal size.
> The problem seems to be a bunch of files in /site/usr/vice/cache .
> These files are taking up 4.4 Mbytes of space....
> I'd love to delete these files, but what are they?
These files didn't cause the root partiton to fill up, as they are
located on the /site partition. They are files cached by the machine when
it accesses files stored under AFS. Don't delete them.
I hope this answers your questions.
Anne Salemme
Athena Systems Support
