On Tue, 10 May 2005, Christopher Smith wrote:

> I have a remote server that managed to quickly fill up its system drive 
> to the point that it can't even run rm (I get an input/output error)
>
> I know I saw something about a work around on this in one of the linux 
> magazines... linux-journal or linux-mag.. does anyone recall that? Or 
> have any other suggestions? If it wasn't in Seattle I'd probably use 
> knoppix or some live cd to remove it but that isnt' an option sadly.

Can you still get process status?  If so, try to find the errant process 
and kill it.  I'm assuming something has run amok.  That happened to me 
recently.  As soon as I killed the thing, a few dozen gigs appeared.

Mike