From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 18:48:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3F737B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.250.89]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:46:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "vipor" , Subject: Re: seeking help--- my /tmp is full ---109 % Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:46:38 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <001001c12126$95ff60a0$0400a8c0@ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <001001c12126$95ff60a0$0400a8c0@ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080921463802.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 09 August 2001 18:56, vipor wrote: > hello, > can someone please assist me I am at a loss, my /tmp directory is obviously > full. But I'm unable to determine why. > and most important I'm also unable to fix this with my current skills and > abilities. : : > If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this..? > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 25 11:05 kde-root > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 25 11:07 ksocket-root > drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 25 11:05 mcop-root > srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql wheel 0 Aug 8 22:58 mysql.sock A lot of those are directories; do "du /tmp" to see what's filling it up if you want to know. If you are justdesperate to get going, the easiest safe way is to reboot, restart in single use mode "boot single" or "boot 1" I believe), and then do rm -rf /tmp/* But I usually, if things are really bad, just log everybody off, kill xdm/kdm if it's running, and then log in and root and do rm -rf /tmp/* Or if I'm feeling really impatient, I just newfs it. And then reboot. This is not the Recommended Procedure, but I've always figured that if some idiot user/process puts permanent files in /tmp, they deserve what they get. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message