You are right.. I panicked, crossed fingers, rebooted and got 7.5 gigs.. Weird. Thanks! Chris -----Original Message----- From: Mike Miller [mailto:mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:57 PM To: Christopher Smith Cc: TCLUG List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] totally full / (can't rm) 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