HELP!: Filesystem Full

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1 total messages Started by webb Tue, 24 Mar 1987 20:14

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Author: webb
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 20:14

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I am having trouble with a VAX 11/730 running 4.2BSD UNIX.  A couple of days 
ago I was running a process in the background that directed its (very verbose)
output into a file in the /usr partition.  Well, after a bit, the message
`/usr:file system is full' began to appear on the console.  Unthinkingly, I
unlinked the file (with rm -f), expecting the process to die as it lost its
standard output pointer, and the disk space to be freed in the process. 
This is not what happened.  I had to kill the process myself, and my /usr
partition is still 96-100% full.  I will not describe the problems this causes.
I have tried using fsck, both with the -p option and without it, to get rid
of this disk space, but to no avail.  I am not even sure that the problem lies
with the file I unlinked while it was still being written into, but that is
my best guess, since /usr was about 34% full before I ran this process, and I am
the only one who uses this machine.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how
I can identify the source of the problem and fix it?  I have tried searching
/usr for large files, and the only ones I found definitely belonged there.
Thanks in advance.

                                Peter Webb.
				 
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