On Saturday 25 February 2006 05:29 am, Per Jessen wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
After the extraction has finished tar gave some error messages that could not extract everything since no space left on the drive. However df -h showed this: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 9.2G 4.9G 3.9G 56% /home/user/sda4
What does "du -hs /home/user/sda4" say?
Now I don't know what the problem is and how I could fix it.
Does the freedb tar.bz2 file really expand from 450Mb to 10Gb ?
Yesterday I hit a similar problem. It looked as if my / partition was completely filled. My problem lay in the /tmp directory. I found a few strange large iso files apparently from some backup files I made.. Deleting them gave back some 43GB of space. I believe the real fault lies in not clearing out the /tmp directory periodically since I never turn off the machine. In the file /etc/sysconfig/cron I changedthe line: MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP="0" to MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP="14" to clear out the unused files periodically. Maybe one of the real Gurus will tell us how to best do this. Richard