Re: Filling up of root partition

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From: Tony Payne
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <4jundg$3ro@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
	oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au (Kai O'Yang) writes:
>oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au (Kai O'Yang) writes:

>>mhart@solar.profs.unsw.edu.AU (Michael HART) writes:

>>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.

>DON'T delete your current /vmunix. You need it to boot. delete the vmunix.old*

Having done that copy /vmunix to /vmunix.old. That way if /vmunix gets
corrupted, you can boot off the other one. Even someone who doesn't
know you've done this will guess that there's a /vmunix.old. :-)

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Cheers,
Tony.

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