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
>
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