Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
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On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> 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.
Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no?
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