a few dozen gigs appeared... That was just funny (not the server issue) but the statement "a few dozen gigs appeared" The days of a 286 running Coherent and a 40mb hard drive are just so much history. Sam. Mike Miller 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 >