Re: Urgent Help needed please
> On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +0000, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> >
> > 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".
According to Mike Touloumtzis <miket@geoworks.com>:
> 1) You usually don't have to reboot to fsck a filesystem, especially
> a non-root filesystem. First, kick off your users (shutdown -k is
> useful for this). Then umount the filesystem, fsck it, and remount it.
> This works great for /home, not so well for /var, since it tends to
> be in use all the time.
Unfortunately the error(s) was/were on the /var partition. (see above)
This reminds me that I can't even tell now what errors were reported
and fixed by fsck. :-( Is there really no way to rewrite the startup
scripts so that they log _all_ the messages?
> If you can't umount it, take the system to
> single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck.
That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote
access to this machine.
> 2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
> most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
> presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If
> this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed. So:
> # touch /forcefsck
> # shutdown -r now
> Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details.
Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint.
Thanks for your help!
Andy.
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