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Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?



On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:24:41PM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no?
> 
> Well it was either the linking or have it continue to fill up the partition, 
> this was the only time I have ever had to deal with the file in the many 
> years I have been using GNU/Linux. I figure if I ever need to get some 
> information out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce 
> the error again.

you can always recover the contents with cat /dev/null > oldlogfile
and just wait for it to finish...

;-P

A

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