On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:53:31 -0600
Peter B Van Campen
Hello SuSE'ers.
Last night my 8.1 sys was running fine w/o any noticable problems. This morning the KDE desktop is littered with msgs saying "Cannot write XXX" and there is one from KDiskfree saying "dev /dev/hda3 is dangerously full" hda3 is my main ide 80GB WD drive. Last night it had 32GB FREE, but now it shows 99% full. Most things running have stopped on errors, KMail has lost it's indexes but shutdown -restart worked.
Upon reboot the system reports 32GB free and after some repairs seems to be OK. /var/log/messages shows nothing ou of the ordinary. Upon reboot there was an entry: Reiserfs replayed 86 transactions in 5 seconds
Using reiserfs SuSE 8.1 up to date via YOU KDE 3.0.5 SuSE 2.4.19 SMP kernel Has this happened to anyone else?
Anyone able to explain this weird problem?
No, but it's easy enough to do. Alot of people create files by using dd if=/dev/zero of=sometemp.file and renaming the file according to some incrementing naming scheme to get by the 2 gig file limit. This then fills the disk up to 100%. Of course, they delete the files when done. They do this to "wipe" the freespace on the harddrive, by the overwriting with zeros. So you might want to watch your apps everynow and then, with "top" and sort for memory using "M". See if and what is getting big, check your /tmp directories too. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation