[cobalt-users] Help Please system down

[Revd leonard payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can anyone help - My Raq 4i is down - following symptoms


1. At around 9:30 tonight GMT, I did the following
tar -cvf /home/sites/home/users/admin/Backup.tar /usr /bin /sbin /lib

I then Gzipped it and moved it to /home/sites/home/web/Backup.tar.gz
It was a - v  e r y -   big file

2. I Logged on to my other Raq4i that I manage and Wget it to that system
(a nice way of backing each others system)

3. I attempted to do a tar -cvf /home   but it crashed saying no disk space
left !!. Deleted the - v e r y - big file

4.I received a nice email from the box telling me short of disk space
Total disk space:  726.04 MB
Free disk space:  0.00 MB
Percent Used:  100 %


5. That didnt seem much so I looked at the GUI and it was amber and flashing
saying disk problem. Looked at the stats and no problem .

6. Phoned colo - quote "yeah man - its a bug --"   reboot it'll go away !!

7. reboot - suddenly its 10:00pm and either the system is sending errors
to me or 15 minute monitor is active because I got:

"The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted."

and

Cron reports an error
Cron <root@coferaq> /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh
egrep: writing output: No space left on device


8. Rebooted again.

9. System unavailable. No Web - No email - No SSH - No nothing
Colo is on answerfone - it's Friday - It's raining and I haven't finished my
sermon for Easter Sunday.

10. I feel like asking Oral Roberts to come and lay hands on this RAq ...
"be healed" 

Can someone advise what went wrong and how I should respond

Blessings
Revd leonard