Re: File size limit exceeded
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your prompt reply. Problem: I do not have wmheader program
anywhere ;-(. There must be another reason why I get this silly eror
message. Any thoughts? Thanks a million.
Chris
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 21:26, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> On 2002.05.12 02:16 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote:
> > Everything went
> > well, until I wanted to format a hard drive. By then mkfs.ext2,
> > mkfs.ext3, mkfs.reiserfs, and even mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos gave me
> > the
> > error message:
> > File size limit exceeded
> > As this error has never occured prior to my recent library update I
> > presume that there must be a bug in the latter. Any idea how to fix or
> > avoid it?
>
> Run lsof (should reside in /usr/sbin/lsof) to get a list of the open
> files. I ran into this problem because wmheader (which runs once every
> 30 minutes) failed to clean up after itself. If you find you have
> similiar problem, you'll need to kill the running processes then remove
> the cron entry (look in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily and
> /etc/cron.weekly).
>
>
> HTH,
> Ian
>
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