Re: "device full" messages and lost file contents.
What do you get for
df /var
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> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian Woody i386.
>
> Yesterday I had a scary experience. I started getting these "device
> full, can't save to device" messages and several applications crashed.
> I could not send mail, I only got these messages.
>
> I rebooted the machine, and when I came back up I noticed that several
> config files for the programs that crashed was reduced to 0. Also, all
> the WindowMaker config files was 0 and I had to completely redo my
> desktop. After looking at this for a while it seemed like all files that
> was being written to for the period of time when I got these messages
> was reduced to 0.
>
> What might have caused this? Every thing works fine now, and for the
> record: My HD is *not* full! :)
>
> TIA
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