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Re: Filling up of root partition

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From: Kai O'Yang
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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mhart@solar.profs.unsw.edu.AU (Michael HART) writes:


>The df command reveals:
>solar:mhart 66[~]$ df
>Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/sd0a              10079    9298       0   102%    /
>/dev/sd3a             203591  169896   13336    93%    /usr
>/dev/sd3g            1050958  203012  742851    21%    /home
>/dev/sd0e              27751     602   24374     2%    /tmp
>/dev/sd0h             249895  200752   24154    89%    /usr/local
>/dev/sd0g              46135    6373   35149    15%    /var
>/dev/sd1a            1959757 1042513  721269    59%    /home/Data
>/dev/sd1b            1959757  656337 1107445    37%    /home/mhart/X
>solar:mhart 67[~]$ 

>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369644 Jan  5 09:38 vmunix
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369548 Mar 30  1993 vmunix.old0
>-rw-r--r--  1 root      1741916 Oct 19 17:13 vmunix.old1
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1369644 Oct 27 12:55 vmunix.old2
>solar:mhart 68[/]$ 

As your df showed, there are only ~10MB total in root. Look at your vmunix's
in root, all these "old" vmunix's combined took > 5MB. It's not surprising
you get a full root. Back (or zap :-) these old vmunix up into somewhere else 
will fix your problem.
--

Kai O'Yang, PSCIT, Peninsula Campus, Monash Uni, Frankston, VIC 3199, Australia.
email: oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au	Tel: +61 3 9904 4615, FAX: +61 3 9904 4124
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From: oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au (Kai O'Yang)
Subject: Re: Filling up of root partition
Date: 1996/04/03
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