Re: [cobalt-users] root login failure and /var at 100%

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> David Liu wrote:
> > 
> > folks-
> > 
> > i've got a raq2 that has its /var directory at 100% capacity (i did a df -h).

> About all you can do is find a file owned by admin in the var partition
> and delete it. That should free up some room so you can su to root. 

Heh, ever tried to find one? There aren't any ;)

> As a hedge against this problem in the future, it's a useful trick to
> make a 100K or so junk file in /var that's owned by admin.

Ewww ;)

> If you have access to the RaQ, you could also pull out the HD and mount
> it as a secondary drive in another Linux box that you do have root
> access on, and manually remove some files that way.

Or use an installer package to delete something....Since they go on / they
will upload, I wrote one to delete the analog dns cache file, which is
rebuildable (eg contains nothing vitally important) And is usually enough
to get the lock for login....

[David, email me offlist if you want it, i'll email it to you]

gsh