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



On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice.
> > I looked at the files under /root, and found
> > there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
> > What is that? Can I delete it?
>
> That tells me you should not be using X as root.
>
> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not
> run "certain program as root".
>

Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer, 
avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of junk 
into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me running as 
normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really after I removed 
the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the problem.

Stephen

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