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[SLE] Re: No space left on device
  • From: tomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (S.Toms)
  • Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004071810390.5230-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, George Zeigler wrote:

gz> Hello,
gz> I had a problem with my drive filling up. Netscapes cache directory
gz> does not clear. I had to go to ~/cache/ and do a
gz> rm -r *
gz>

I found the following within your crontab works nicely

find /home/skull/.netscape/cache -type f -atime +5 -exec rm -f {}
\; >/dev/null 2>&1

that should all be on one line by the way. But run it every evening or
once a week and it will easily manage the cache files for you. Mine sits
around 8mg on average.

gz> George
gz>
gz> Fri, 07 Apr 2000, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:
gz> > ----- Original Message -----
gz> > From: Yatsen Ng <yatsenng@xxxxxxxxxx>
gz> > To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
gz> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:46 PM
gz> > Subject: [SLE] No space left on device
gz> >
gz> >
gz> > > Hi there,
gz> > >
gz> > > When I attempt to copy something from one partition to my home directory
gz> > > I get the message: 'No space left on device' I find this hard to believe
gz> > > since I recently did a fresh reinstall and there's supposed to be ample
gz> > > space in my /home partition. Is there something going on here?
gz> > >
gz> > > --
gz> > > Yatsen Ng
gz> > > yatsenng@xxxxxxxxxx
gz> > > Den Haag, The Netherlands
gz> > >
gz> > > It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
gz> > >
gz> > > --
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gz> > > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
gz> > >
gz> > >
gz> >
gz> > Try `df -ak` and see what is avaiable or free and what percent is used.
gz> > Also check inodes, something like `dk -i`. If those both check out, check
gz> > the quota for users `quota -v username` and see if they are overquota on
gz> > that directory. How big is the file? Sometimes there is a `limit` on file
gz> > size by the shell, check out `man limit; man ulimit`
gz> >
gz> > Jack
gz> >
gz> >
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gz> --
gz> My personal website
gz> http://www.firstnethou.com/gz/welcome.htm
gz>
gz>


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