Re: FW: Mail reader problem

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:53:42PM +0100, Fisayo Adeleke wrote:
> no of a faster way to free space by deleting used files and directories without having to see 'directory not empty' message??

rm -rf directoryname

Deletes the give directory and ALL files and subdirectories below it. Use
with caution!

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: Fisayo Adeleke
> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Mail reader problem
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Fisayo Adeleke wrote:
> > so what can be done?
> 
> Find out which partition is full (using 'df -k'), and free up some disk
> space!
> 
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:36 PM
> > To: Fisayo Adeleke
> > Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> > Subject: Re: FW: Mail reader problem
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Fisayo Adeleke wrote:
> > > i did as you suggested but i didn't see any open or write fail .... but i extracted this little below as these lines pricks me
> > > 
> > > read(4, "Return-path: <owner-afnog-outgoi"..., 4096) = 1663
> > > write(3, "Envelope-to: fisayo at uu.steineng."..., 339) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
> > > _llseek(4, 1663, [1663], SEEK_SET)      = 0
> > > _llseek(4, 1663, [1663], SEEK_SET)      = 0
> > > read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
> > > close(4)                                = 0
> > > munmap(0x40023000, 4096)                = 0
> > > write(3, "make sure /tmp is 777\n\n\n-----\nTh"..., 330) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
> > > close(3)                                = 0
> > 
> > Aha :-) Those _are_ write failures.
> > 
> > df -k
> > 
> 

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