Re: /tmp accidentally filled
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:29:50AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 10:02:38 Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help, Kevin.
>
> As I said, I have never had to do anything to tmp before. But it has not
> cleaned up at boot and the fact that it is 100% full is causing problems.
> This is a direct result of the mess I created when I messed up my backup. I
> have deleted the bulk of the stuff wrongly placed on my root partition - so
> most things are working fine again - and am left with this 100% filled tmp.
>
> From what you say, I can safely delete the lot? After all, if it should have
> been cleaned up automatically, it can't hurt if I clean it up manually?
If you have not rebooted your computer, some running process may be
actively using some file in tmp. Also, a 'backup program' may use /tmp
to use while is working on the backup, so it may have left stuff there.
I'd suggest doing:
cd /tmp
du -s -m * .*|sort -n
so you can see what is the largest items. You hopefully will see a
large directory/file left by the backup program and be able to delete
that first. Otherwise, I dont recall the way to figure out which /tmp
file is NOT being actively used.
HTH
-K
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