Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:52:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 01/18/07 17:43, 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?
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> > That tells me you should not be using X as root.
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> But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator!!!!
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> Why can't I do the same thing in Stupid Old Linux?????
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This is a fundamental thing about all *NIX OSs. Linux will also _LET_
you do anything as root. That doesn't mean its a good idea.
Since you're a newbie, I suggest you read the debian-reference manual.
Doug.
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