Is saying it can't fork a new process or is it erroring because the hard drive is full? On 5/10/05, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- http://www.gopherbooks.com - University of Minnesota Students: A free textbook exchange and professor ratings website -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050510/9131416c/attachment.html