Re: Urgent Help needed please
You are going to probably need physical access to the machine to run fsck
from the console. It is possible that it might repair itself on a reboot
but if it has problems, it will come up in single-user mode wanting input
from the console and you are going to have to go to the machine anyway (or
talk someone through pressing the "y" key during the fsck).
Risking fsck on a live filesystem that is in use is not something to be
taken lightly ... is it possible that the drive really IS full?
On 12 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to
> /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is:
> "No space left on device".
>
> I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this:
>
> ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \
> corrupted for block group 4
> ... last message repeated 207 times
> ... last message repeated 133 times
> and so on.
>
> Help! What can I do to resolve this without rebooting the machine?
> Well, I guess I could reboot it, but it is very far away from me and if it
> gets stuck during the reboot I'd have an even bigger problem. Besides,
> there are some users logged in and I'd hate to kick them out. :-(
>
> Please send help soon!
> Thanks so much in advance,
> Andy.
>
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