Full disk problem

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1 total messages Started by Fernando Torre Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:01

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Author: Fernando Torre
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:01

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I have a NeXTstation with 8meg of memory, 200meg internal drive and
230meg external drive. After running a bunch of sound and score
applications I noticed that playing a score file would, after a while
quit with no messages at all. At that moment I noticed that  my internal
drive was full. I went to check the size of the swapfile ant it was 
more than 80meg! I then rebooted (big mistake?) hoping that the swap
file would go back to 16meg?, but it never passed the checking network...
message during reboot.
Questions:
  How can I get it to reboot?
  I think I should be able to boot from floppy and try to mount the
  disk to do some cleaning.
  Can I remove the /private/vm/swapfile? and then reboot?
  Why is the swapfile so big. How can I prevent this from happening?
  
  I am a new Next user, so please excuse my ignorance. I'd really
  appreciate any input.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Fernando Torre  -------------------------------  torre@oakhill.sps.mot.com

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