On Friday 09 July 2004 8:57 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
boot with the install disk to rescue, start MidnightCommander and delete /tmp/* -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
Thanks Patrick - I'd never actually found a need to use midnight commander before, but it certainly made it much clearer where the disk usage was taking place: YaST System Backup had made an enormous collection of archives in /tmp/ DkJcaPp5Gp/ taking up the entire hard disk. Presumably, the reason that the backup ground to a halt (which was why I had to abandon it) was because it ran out of space for the next archive or there wasn't room in the target volume. Am now back to a much more usable 7% full hard drive! I suppose the next question is why YaST requires so much space to back up 3GB worth of stuff...?! Thanks again, Chris